{"id":676,"date":"2006-01-11T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=676"},"modified":"2006-01-11T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T14:44:34","slug":"on-sam-raimis-discworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"On Sam Raimi&#039;s Discworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,12589,1683216,00.html\">this blurb<\/a> in the Guardian, director Sam Raimi of <i>Evil Dead<\/i> and <i>Spider-Man<\/i> fame, will be directing an adaptation of one of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld books, <i>The Wee Free Men<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sam Raimi, currently hard at work on Spider-Man 3, has been tapped to direct an adaptation of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s The Wee Free Men as his first post-Spidey project. The 2003 book, part of Pratchett&#8217;s immensely popular Discworld series of fantasy novels, centres on a nine-year-old girl&#8217;s efforts, with the help of six-inch-tall sheep rustlers in kilts, to rescue her brother from the clutches of a fairy queen. If the picture is successful, Sony Pictures could be looking at a franchise goldmine &#8211; the Discworld series encompasses at least 35 novels and three children&#8217;s books so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, though odd, news.  I&#8217;m curious to see what Raimi comes up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this blurb in the Guardian, director Sam Raimi of Evil Dead and Spider-Man fame, will be directing an adaptation of one of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Discworld books, The Wee Free Men: Sam Raimi, currently hard at work on Spider-Man 3, has been tapped to direct an adaptation of Terry Pratchett&#8217;s The Wee Free Men<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=676\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Sam Raimi&#039;s Discworld&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[1041,1042,502],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-discworld","tag-sam-raimi","tag-terry-pratchett","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}