We had this problem with Going Postal, as the phrase ‘The falling angel meets the rising ape’ has particular importance and they wanted to cut it,” he says. He said that just when you think ‘Oh that bit’s nonsense, I can cut that,’ you realise it forms it the entire basis of the plot and have to start all over again. “I recently had a complicated phone call with someone who had to abridge a Discworld book. You take a bunch of good people and a small budget, and if the scenery shakes, that’s because it was meant to shake.” There’s much less money and much less interference and I think that, as a result, you get a lot more ingenuity. “Working for television is very different from Hollywood. In fact they even came perilously close to taking advice from me,” he told me, during an interview at the Miptv conference in Cannes. “I was the on set Discworld expert, if you like. So much so, in fact, that during the filming of an adaptation of his 33rd Discworld novel “Going Postal” for Sky One, he spent most of his time behind-the-scenes, making sure it was all going smoothly. All novelists are worried about how their creations are put on screen, but Terry Pratchett, the cult fantasy writer who has sold 45 million books world wide, famed for his white beard and trademark black hat, is particularly pernickety.
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