Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie

greenrd writes "'Almost No Budget Films,' a group of Terry Pratchett fans from Germany, recently finished a 9-month filming stint on a full-length dramatisation of pterry's novel 'Lords and Ladies.' A grand total of 300 euros were spent on this production, and all profits from this fan movie will go to the Orangutan Foundation. Check out the new English trailer for some grin-inducing special effects!"

Bandwidth Cost

[Monx]

And another 300 euros will be spent thanks to the direct video link on Slashdot.

Until

[Kjella]

A grand total of 300 euros were spent on this production

Until they were hit with multiple times that in bandwidth costs after a slashdotting. Mohahahaha >:->

Slashdotting a full-length movie?!

[SamSim]

I could hear their server exploding from England!

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[flumps]

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[trans. I for one welcome our oragutan overlords]

Under-blues.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Check out the new English trailer for some grin-inducing special effects!""

Wearing too tight underwear can produce the same effect.

OKAY

[Anonymous Coward]

Then never mind moneys, give them some sandwiches

Re:Slashdotting a full-length movie?!

[el-spectre]

Shoulda hosted it on Hex...

Re:ook

[Scrab]

I thought they were monkeys

Oh wait....

*starts running*

Re:Bittorent copy

[tcdk]

It's horribly low quality [trackerwww.prq.to], with some really bad mpeg artefact's. I tidied up a frame, with a wizard talking on his cellphone ... where you go:

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Gotta Catch 'Em All!

[boingyzain]

on a full-length dramatisation of pterry's novel

Pterry? Sounds like a Pokemon.

Back on topic... I sure wish real movie studios would pick up some of these Discworld novels to make a great expensive movie out of. I can see them as the next Star Wars or such, if they do it right.

Or, even better, a faithful recreation of Dune!

Re:ook

[Anonymous Coward]

Some people just dont get in-jokes. If you don't like Pratchett why read the article in the first place?

Funniest flame i ever read tho, that said..

Usually...

[GNUThomson]

unless it is uni-form-hot-chicks.de or something. But that kind of sites have their educational goals, anyway.

Re:Gotta Catch 'Em All!

[Anonymous Coward]

Is the Pterry related to the Ptarmigan?

Pterry - a small humourous sea bird, with a strange affinity for elephants.

Re:The footage isn't usually the problem...

[Anonymous Coward]

the fringe characters (i.e. not the extras) suck donkey balls

What movies are *you* watching?

Re:Almost No Budget for webserver too

[Anonymous Coward]

Site loads fine here. Check your ethernet cable is plugged in. If you light it on fire you get fire wire and your page will load faster. Too bad your cable only lasts a certain ammount of time though.

Re:Gotta Catch 'Em All!

[DJCF]

a faithful recreation of Dune!

Check out the *very* original - the David Lynch, with a young Patrick Stewart and horrendous CG. It's almost as old as the Ten Commandments (the film, not stones)!

But it's good...

Re:Considered

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to start a project to convert Dali's "The Persistence of Memory" into a television series.

It's been done. It was called "Monty Python's Flying Circus". There's also been a remake called "Futurama".

Re:ook

[ackthpt]

Oook ook OOOk ook ook ook OOk ook ook ook ook.

I went to the theater to see the click, but there was this big guy with long read hair and long arms taking up the whole front row. He had a huge sack of banged grains, too, and kept throwing them at the screen.