Terry Pratchett To Write An Episode?

[StCoop]

http://doctorwhospoilers.com/2011/4459

Is anyone else reminded of all those times Neil Gaiman denied he was writing an episode of DW?

(On the other hand didn't Pratchett decry DW for not being "real" SF in an interview last year?)

 

[Starkers]

Yes he did. I have to admit to not being particularly au fait with his work, has he actually written scripts before? I thought he was primarily a novelist but like I say I don't know the extent of his work.

I'd rather have Gaiman or Curtis back again.

 

[StCoop]

I have to admit to not being particularly au fait with his work, has he actually written scripts before? I thought he was primarily a novelist but like I say I don't know the extent of his work.

He did some work on the scripts of the various live
-action adaptations of his books that Sky have shown over the past few years, but let's face it, as one of the world's best selling authors if he agreed to write a script no one would hold a lack of screenwriting experience against him.

 

[Cutter John]

And before anyone gets worked up, theres a big difference between 'meeting with', and 'commissioning a script'.

 

[Australis]

Yes he did. I have to admit to not being particularly au fait with his work, has he actually written scripts before? I thought he was primarily a novelist but like I say I don't know the extent of his work.

I'd rather have Gaiman or Curtis back again.

Oh. My. God. You don't know the Discworld???

Read Mort or Guards! Guards! or Wyrd Sisters. NOW! Seriously dude, you're missing something huge!

I'm very pleased if this is true.

 

[Deckerd]

And before anyone gets worked up, theres a big difference between 'meeting with', and 'commissioning a script'.

Terry Pratchett would never use the verb/preposition 'meeting* with' because he, like most people in the UK, understands that 'meet' is a transitive verb.

*Actually ignore that since meeting is obviously a noun. I meant, of course, 'meet with'. That'll larn me to be a snooty cow. Let the beating begin.

 

[Starkers]

Yes he did. I have to admit to not being particularly au fait with his work, has he actually written scripts before? I thought he was primarily a novelist but like I say I don't know the extent of his work.

I'd rather have Gaiman or Curtis back again.

Oh. My. God. You don't know the Discworld???

Read Mort or Guards! Guards! or Wyrd Sisters. NOW! Seriously dude, you're missing something huge!

I'm very pleased if this is true.

I've read precisely one Discworld novel in my life I think it was the first one!

 

[Deckerd]

I don't think there will many more after Snuff, sadly.

 

[Australis]

I've read precisely one Discworld novel in my life I think it was the first one!

They improve in gigantic leaps and bounds. Any of the ones mentioned above are a better place to start.

 

[Australis]

I don't think there will many more after Snuff, sadly.

There is still Raising Taxes and Scouting for Trolls in the works.

 

[StCoop]

I don't think there will many more after Snuff, sadly.

There is still Raising Taxes and Scouting for Trolls in the works.

Not to get all morbid or anything but I wonder if his daughter will pick up the mantle when he's no longer able to carry on writing.

 

[VDCNI]

I've tried a few times to get into Discworld but it's never really worked for me but then I'm not a massive fan of Gaiman's stuff either and he worked out well so this could be interesting.

 

[Australis]

I'll do it!

Samples:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1535440/Australis

 

[23skidoo]

Pratchett is in my bad books for his comments about Doctor Who - but there's no denying he would be a perfect fit along the lines of Douglas Adams. I might be more interested in him writing a Doctor Who novel like Michael Moorcock did than an actual script. For the TV show, Richard Curtis and Neil Gaiman are my first choices if they do this again, but I'd also love to see Grant Morrison or even Alan Moore given a shot. I'd also love for them to give an "old school" Doctor Who writer like Terrence Dicks a go (as Dicks is the only one to have written any new era Who novels - he wrote a couple of the Tenth Doctor "Quick Reads" novellas, and novelised a Sarah Jane Adventures - he'd be my first choice).

Alex

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Good Omens is the only Pratchett novel I've read (one of these days I'll finally get to Discworld), so I'm interested but not ecstatic by this. Like others, I much rather see Curtis and Gaiman return. I also like Alex's idea of having ol' Grampa Terry write an episode for the new series (Chris Boucher would be cool, too). It's just a bloody shame Robert Holmes and Douglas Adams aren't with us anymore.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I have to admit to not being particularly au fait with his work, has he actually written scripts before? I thought he was primarily a novelist but like I say I don't know the extent of his work.

He did some work on the scripts of the various live
-action adaptations of his books that Sky have shown over the past few years, but let's face it, as one of the world's best selling authors if he agreed to write a script no one would hold a lack of screenwriting experience against him.

I don't think he really did much more than edit or consult, his credit was "mucked about by"

 

[Samurai8472]

http://doctorwhospoilers.com/2011/4459
(On the other hand didn't Pratchett decry DW for not being "real" SF in an interview last year?)

Correct

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2010/05/03/guest-blog-terry-pratchett-on-doctor-who/

I don't know about you, but I don't think I would dare try to jump-start a spaceship that looks like the Titanic by diving it into the atmosphere... but I have to forgive the Doctor that, because it was hilariously funny.

Doctor Who on the other hand had an episode wherein people's surplus body fat turns into little waddling creatures. I'm not sure how old you have to be to come up with an idea like that.

I don't think he'd like RTD lol. Both of those episodes were written by him

People say Doctor Who is science fiction. At least people who don’t know what science fiction is, say that Doctor Who is science fiction.

 

[captcalhoun]

it IS science fiction. time travel, aliens, robots, alien planets. ray guns... all says SF to me, even if it is soft SF not 'hard' SF...

 

[Guartho]

I don't think he really did much more than edit or consult, his credit was "mucked about by"

I'll have to check, but I thought "Mucked about by Terry Pratchett" was a phrase he uses to describe most of his work.