Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels Are Getting New, Star-Studded Audiobooks

Live-action variations of Sir Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld books have all the time been a blended bag, however we would have lastly discovered a winner. Penguin Random House has introduced that it has commissioned new audiobook recordings of all 40 Discworld novels, utilizing a wide range of British stars to carry them to life.

What’s cool is that every of Discworld’s “subseries” of books—i.e., the novels starring Rincewind, the Witches, the Wizards, the City Guard, Death, or different characters—could have their very own distinct narrator. So, as an example, Game of Thrones’ Indira Varma (who performed Ellaria Sand) will document Equal Rites, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, and Carpe Jugulum, all starring the Lancre coven of witches. Other introduced narrators embody Fleabag’s Sian Clifford, Merlin’s Colin Morgan, and Lords of the Rings’ Andy Serkis, who will deal with the Death books, the Wizard books, and the standalone title Small Gods, respectively.

However, they received’t be alone. Peter Serafinowicz, who offered the voice for Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace and was the star of Amazon’s current Tick sequence, has been forged as Pratchett’s iconic model of Death for the whole thing of the undertaking. Moreover, Bill Nighy will learn all of Pratchett’s many, many footnotes that he scattered by the Discworld books. The actor mentioned, “I’m honored to voice the footnotes and bring to life one of the funniest, quirkiest, and best-loved aspects of Terry Pratchett’s world. He added footnotes to the pages of all of his Discworld novels. They are his personal commentary on the action, little snippets of information or funny asides. They feel very much like the voice of the great man himself commenting on the action. I’ve enjoyed it enormously.”

All advised, the “ambitious project narrators will read nearly four million words, with nearly 150 days in the studio and resulting in over 400 hours of finished audio.” But clearly, there’s nonetheless lots we don’t know—like who’ll be narrating the Rincewind, City Watch, Tiffany Aching, and Moist Van Ludwig sequence, or if different main characters like Death could have their very own distinctive voices. Stay tuned, and share your dream Discworld audio forged within the feedback!

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