The Color of Magic (TV 2008)
"The Colour of Magic" (original title)

As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey ... See full summary »

Director:

Vadim Jean

Writers:

Vadim Jean, Terry Pratchett (novels)

Stars:

David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
David Jason	...	Rincewind
Sean Astin	...	Twoflower
Tim Curry	...	Trymon
Jeremy Irons	...	Patrician
Brian Cox	...	Narrator (voice)
James Cosmo	...	Galder Weatherwax
Christopher Lee	...	Death (voice)
Janet Suzman	...	Ninereeds
David Bradley	...	Cohen the Barbarian
Nigel Planer	...	Arch Astronomer
Stephen Marcus	...	Broadman
Laura Haddock	...	Bethan
Liz May Brice	...	Herrena
Karen David	...	Liessa
Geoffrey Hutchings	...	Picture Imp

Storyline

As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey & fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.

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Plot Keywords:

guide | tourist | selfishness | coward | treasure | 

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Taglines:

A Spellbinding Adventure

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Sky One

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 March 2008 (UK)

Also Known As:

The Color of Magic

Filming Locations:

Anglesey, Wales, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

RHI Entertainment, Mob Film Company, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

191 min

Color:

Black and White Color Color (High Definition)

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Alchemist is played by Richard Woolfe - better known for being Director of Programming for Sky One, Sky Two and Sky Three. Sky Televison commissioned the production of both "The Colour of Magic" and "Hogfather".

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Goofs

Twoflower gets out his picture box to take pictures of the new worlds being born. When we see him and the others from behind Twoflower is in line with them, but when we see him from the front he is clearly far in front of the others

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Quotes

Death: I was at a party, you know.

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Crazy Credits

Mucked about by Terry Pratchett

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Connections

Followed by Going Postal (2010)

User Reviews

Great Fun

Only 8 out of 10 because I would - of course - have loved to have everything in it ( I would also have liked a big "Lord of the Rings" budget and effort on this).

They have made a creditable effort to cram the most important bits in. I've watched it with someone who doesn't know the books and had, in fact, never heard of Terry Pratchett. It took him a while to get into the fun of things but he didn't need clarification on anything, so the story line cant' have been too hacked.

As TV productions go, "Colour of Magic" (and "Hogfather") are like watching filmed theatre; it is a stage setting rather than film scenery and the acting certainly is superb. The incidental moments with Death and Rincewind are great as is the scene with the Patrician ordering Rincewind to look after Twoflower. The magic sword, on the other hand, sounded like 'Eddie, the shipboard computer' from Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". And they have to improve the dragons before they start on 'Guards Guards'.

I loved it - every minute of it. And Terry Pratchett had a hand in it so it must reflect at least some of his ideas - he always impressed me as being quite a strong character.

I hope they'll make all of them!!!