The film premiered at the Curzon Cinema in Mayfair on Monday 27 November 2006. Some interior and exterior scenes were shot in Spring 2005 at Sutton House, Hackney, with extensive use of artificial snow to create winter. Bernard Pearson was involved with the 'look' of Ankh-Morpork. The storyboarding for the film was by artist Stephen Briggs, who drew The Streets of Ankh-Morpork and The Discworld Mapp. Ian Richardson also played Francis Urquhart in the BBC series House of Cards when Death says to Albert,, this mirrors a similar phrase of Urquhart's. The Death of Rats was credited as played by "Dorckey Hellmice", an anagram of "Michelle Dockery".īoth Nigel Planer, who plays Sideney and the voice of the Auditors, and Tony Robinson, who plays Mr Crumley, have been the readers for many of the audiobook editions of the Discworld novels, and have both had voice acting roles in the Discworld video games. The set dressing for the toyshop included appropriate labels. Although not named in the original book or the script, Pratchett decided the toymaker was named Joshua Isme, and his shop was Toys Is Me (a play on Toys R Us).
Pratchett himself has a cameo as a toymaker, in addition to his official script credit of 'Mucked About By'.
The series closely follows the plot of the novel, in which the Hogfather, the Discworld equivalent to Father Christmas, has gone missing, and Death is forced to take his place, while his granddaughter Susan attempts to find out what happened.
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