Reaper Man part 1 (Welcome to Discworld)
Vložit
- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- A teaser for a Cosgrove Hall / Channel 4 animated series that unfortunately never came to be. It's adapted from the early pages of Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man (a Discworld novel).
Featuring Christopher Lee as the voice of Death.
Christopher Lee is one of the few people capable of SPEAKING IN CAPITAL LETTERS without actually yelling, or even being particularly loud.
Yeah, otherwise you get Brian Blessed, everyone's favorite shouty man actor.
Any time the subject of the personification of Death arises, Discworld Death will always, always be the one that comes to mind. Love his fondness for cats :)
And don't forget Death of Rats! 🖤🐀
for me too. can't imagine another antropomorphic personification of the death =)
On a pale horse's dearh is also up there but discworld is the best.
WHY?
The only other one that sticks out in my mind is from Conker's Bad Fur Day, though he hates cats.
"The Big Bang Theory" God I love Terry Pratchett.
It should be mentioned, this is the finished product. This was an animated short which was based on the book Reaper Man, and was never intended to become a full TV show or film.
Instead, the team used this short as the pilot for what went on to become Soul Music, followed by Wyrd Sisters
Shame we never got more of this
I can't believe this didn't become a thing.
Windle Poons' arc would have been hilarious.
The part with him crossing the bridge for example is hilarious and would make great movie fodder.
I will never forget discovering Terry and the Disc World in the late 90s when my dad got me the PlayStation1 game "Disc World" you play as rincewind :)
Can't believe they never made a full series of this, particularly after ending on "To be continued..." And it's not like they decided that Discworld didn't work as an animated series, because they made two full series after it. It can't even be because they didn't think making it about Death was a good idea, because one of them was Soul Music! What a shame.
Bloody hell...this is actually better animated than the films they *did* make.
Sir Pterry Pratchett was and shall always be a God among authors. I'm thankful that, so far, this seems to treat his work with proper respect!
Aw man... this would have been wonderful... I've got an inner child who won't go to bed until he's seen every animated Terry Pratchet thing there is! And what a Death Christopher Lee made! Oh... if only...
I love and miss Sir Pterry. Long ..er... Live DEATH. Looking forward to Good Omens. Hoping Pratchett will finally get the audience he deserves in the US.
Christopher lee IS death! if ever anyone was right for the role its him
I can only imagine studio politics are the reason they never bothered finishing this.
I wonder if Terry laughed when he saw HIM
I think it is the best way to meet the old fella. I mean he does have a very long schedule.
At the end of a life well lived Death is an old friend
Terry did a Dimbleby lecture, entitled, "Shaking Hands With Death".
It's so sad that Christopher Lee has now gone to meet Death. Now he can never again play Death, and he did it so well. I can't imagine any other voice being nearly as good as his at being Death.
Ian Richardson, sadly also passed on, also did a good Death.
i got onto disc world after Red Dwarf, eternity welcomes careful drivers. and hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. the Brits have wonderful story tellers (no, i can't spell)
I LOOOOOOOVE!!! Red Dwatf!!! ^U^
"Red Dwarf" was on t.v. before I discovered, & fell in love with, the Discworld books. I also enjoyed the Hitchhikers series, and other British ones like "Dad's Army", "Fawlty Towers", " 'Allo 'Allo", "Some Mothers Do Have 'Em", "To The Manor Born", "Love Thy Neighbour", "George and Mildred", "Are You Being Served?", "Keeping Up Appearances", "Mr. Bean", and others that I can't recall the names of just now. British humour is the best! It's self-deprecating, intelligent, witty, and has innate sophistication whereas typical American 'comedies' are obvious/overt, 'loud', brash, obnoxious and often use colourful metaphors quite unnecessarily.
Aw man, that's like the ultimate teaser. I thouoght there was another Discworld movie I could order, but nope!
this is a full movie
Whenever any body mentions the flat earthers I just imagine the Discworld. I use it to troll flat earthers.
You devilishly cheeky bastard😊
Of course the worlds flat how else would it fit on the turtle
Believe it or not, there were actually round discers on discworld.
Discworld is a documentary.
How
Love the humor! The Big Bang theory, Death and his Binky, soul music: we're bigger than cheese's! Twisted is good! Homeless Death looking for a job. Don't fire the Reeper! A very exceptional series of story's!
Terry Pratchett is my FAVE, I think I read about 60 his books,, even World of Poo
#RIPChristopherLee
Andrea Ichazo "I HAVE TIME...I'M GOING TO SPEND IT!"
That's the attitude I want to take when I go.
F
I wish this was a series😭it would be so cool
Check soul music and wyrd sisters here in youtube
Man this should have been made I have the other two animated ones on video & the newer films on DVD but I like the older animated ones better they feel more Discworld.
How was this not made? New plan: find some way of convincing a studio to kick start this movie. I won't do it, but as impossible aspirations go it could be worse.
These Cosgrove Hall adaptations were the Bomb. It is a pity so few were made and more so that this treatment was not enlarged into the full story. At least we have Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters, Christopher Lee was the best choice for the Ultimate Conclusion.
LOL death with a big D
Oh you know he has a Big Boney COCK
Hmmm I don’t think that’s what Pratchett was referring to, I hope not anyway lol 😂
Who would have thought that an Auditors of Reality would sound so Welsh?
Really? Well long one sounds a bit Indian, but I don't hear any welsh
if you like disc worlds death then read "on a pale horse" for another good death.
Oh my gawd the Welshy accent is freaking hillarious
As a Welsh person it sounds almost Indian to me.
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
I, ..erm, WE would have liked to have seen the finished product in its entirety.
This sounds like it's narrated by Rowan Atkinson, which is quite possible as - a) he's an excellent actor and comedian and perfect to deliver the witticism of a Pratchett book, and - b) Tony Robinson, the actor that played Baldrick on Blackadder was a close friend of Sir Terry's, and may have recommended him. A true shame this was never made.
Tony Robinson does the audio books perfectly
This is a story about life and about Death. Not death with a little d, but Death with a big D, as in Death the person. It's a story about life and Death and how one depends very much on the other. It's also a story about a world. And here it comes now, right on cue.
This is Great A'Tuin, the Star Turtle. He is ten thousand miles long, as old as time, and as patient as a brick. He is from another universe, and there is no need to tell you that he is a very very rare creature. Fortunately, there is no part of him which is the slightest use as an aphrodisiac, and you wouldn't catch me trying to get it off him if there was. The great cosmological question of the age is: Where has he come from, and where is he going to? The popular theory is that he is traveling from the birthplace to the time of mating. There, he will meet with other turtles, and they will all join in repeated and passionate union. This is known as the Big Bang Theory. On his shell, Great A'Tuin carries four giant elephants: Berilia and Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen. On their enormous shoulders, they carry the great round wheel of: the Discworld.
This is Death's house and that is Death's horse. His name is Binky.
For being too much of a personality and having doubts about his job, Death with a capital D has just been fired. But they're letting him keep the horse.
And there you have it. At this moment, there is no Death on the Discworld. Death's been fired. No one to swing the scythe and no one to collect the souls. Which means those souls are not at rest. They're neither here nor there. They're what you and I might call... zombies. The fine old rumpus that's going to cause. And that's the story that I'm going to tell you. How life and Death depend on each other absolutely...
to be continued...
I've just started to go into the 1st book of the series and the fact that this never became animated fully makes me a bit sad. It looks like it would have been amazing!
Never made? Well, that's a real pity!
Hi there. I once impersonated Windle poons Halloween last year 2018 when people come to the door he couldn't work it out until 3 Young 14-15 year olds read the sign next to the doorbell and clicked Terry Pratchett for next 40 minutes we chatted and they said this book was their favourite then I said you'll have to get out of here you're forming a queue behind you..
I'm curious. What was on the sign?
Hi, there. I have never seen these on channel 4 TV. And if they showed them, it would have been when I was at work in the morning. G. A small God.
Man, the opening is from like 3 different books
It is an absolute shame that this never came to be. What happened?
I feel like the song Reaper Man by Mother Mother could work in this, if it were ever continued ;-;
A little rewording of, “son of a preacher man” would be so good.
Someone please upload Terry Pratchett books l Love to listening to his audiobook's
I’m so sad that this haven’t been made into a series
3:59 Jesus. Is that Tyrion Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire (from the audiobooks)? It sounds a lot like Roy Dotrice . . .
Vlad is a the vampire bloodline wicked spells inner monstrous monster darkness spell sorcery, Gina is a the vampire, Morrigan is a the lich, Death of Discworld is a the skeleton/grim reaper wicked spells outer black blood onlys one find rulers nice.
We need fantasy and imagination to create things, like technology.
Of course, is a double blade sword, it can create lies too.
I'd like thank u all for the nomination! Bwhahaja
Was this ever finished? I have the other cartoons but haven't found this finished piece anywhere.
+Ricaxa I want to know also, this feels like the great start to a Discworld movie
+Ricaxa The next best thing is to go watch a playthrough of the game Discworld 2 as it's just as funny and is completely story based
I dunno but you learn more about him in the Disc World animated series Soul Music.
I have that one and the Wyrd Sisters one.
no it wsn't and cosgrove hall was bulldozed several years ago.
love me some Pratchett
I AM NOT KNOWN FOR MY SENSE OF FUN
Fucking brilliant, innit?
I need an animated movie with the Guard in it..I love Vimes
The BBC are making a TV series based on the city watch. It should be released in 2020
@@Janems999
Yes, and oh boy did they ever ruin it. Gutted.
I like Bill.
So the Great A'tuin is a he?
Otherwise great!
Is this available on DVD and if so, can it be bought in stores, or only on line?
Big bang theory, lol!
🌝Lady Morrigan meets sibling Rin Okbureasea vs. Susan Sto Helit meets sibling Ichicgo vs. Kyuubi meets same Naruto vs. Elsa meets loved Jack Frost.❄
Where is part 2 ?
The Auditors...lol
Where's part 2😊
It's the Big Bang HYPOTHESIS.
I’m confused
Is there a pt2?
How do i watch this
Death with a big D
were can I find the rest of this series
About 30 years in the future.
Perhaps in the future if given the okay by Pratchett's daughter Rhianna, who owns the rights to the Discworld and oversees its legacy - hence any TV series based on the Discworld. Terry Pratchett founded a production company called Narrativia in 2012 and since Terry's passing Rhianna has run it with Terry's former business manager, Rob Wilkins. There are currently at least two (2) TV series being made now based on Pratchett's work, both six-part series: one is based upon the City Watch in Ankh-Morpork and the other is the TV adaptation of the beloved 1990's book "Good Omens" written by Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Rhianna Pratchett is apparently overseeing a 6 part TV series with a working title of "The Watch" based on Pratchett's stories surrounding the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork - see below for the Discworld books it's based upon - AND the BBC is set to finally air a TV series of "Good Omens" in 2019 on either BBC Two or on Amazon. It will be a six-part series with David Tennant and Michael Sheen playing the roles of a sunglass-sporting demon named Crowley and a bookkepper angel named Aziraphale from the book, "Good Omens", written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman first published in 1990.
In regards to the series based on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, it is apparently going to be working from the following material, primarily Discworld novels: "Guards! Guards!" (1989), a short story "Theatre of Cruelty" (1993) not published widely to date, "Men at Arms" (1993), "Feet of Clay" (1996), ""Jingo" (1997), "The Fifth Elephant" (1999), "Night Watch" (2002), "Thud!" (2005), and "Snuff" (2011). The narrative of these books follows the growth of the City Watch as they go from a "hapless trio of individuals to a fully-functioning police force; all while facing the clash between modern technology versus traditional magic." - the last quote is from Clarisse Loughrey's 7th March (2018) article in the Independent.co.uk "Terrry Pratchett's Discwold to become six-part TV series").
What happened to the rest of the animation ? There must be more somewhere.
Atuin is weird
😢👻My My That's Vlad's Blooded Vampire Hourglass Cronie Destruction Weaklings Grim Haunting Ghost Souls Spirited Destroyed Darling Rabies Sand Break Monster Vampyr Dream Dears Dare Opposed Sto Helit met makes meets not to late Dracula's Old Father Vladdy Trinity So Behind By Death the Susan Death's GrandFather of the Domain Discworld.💀💀
What a weird interpretation of me! Lord what fools these actors be!
Is there any more of this? This is fantastic! I adore the narrator's voice and think that it really suits the overall tone of Pratchett's work! Absolutely brilliant!
Terry Pratchett - Soul Music (Animated)