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18 September 2008 1:00 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Like the monster at its heart, the new CGI film Igor feels like a patchwork creature pulled together from a variety of sources. The character design, palette, and sensibility come from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. The protagonist looks like from Disney's Hunchback Of Notre Dame, down to the football-shaped head, unruly thatch of hair, bulgy eyes, and protruding ears. The cheery-creepy-crackpot tone is reminiscent of Invader Zim. The plot recalls Ratatouille. The two wacky, mismatched stupid-and-smart sidekicks come from practically every animated movie since The Lion King. Even the central conceit, in which "Igor" is more a job description and oppressed social underclass than a proper name, is familiar from Terry Pratchett's popular Discworld books. But in spite of all the familiarity, Igor finds its borrowed feet readily, with an appealing mix of macabre, reference-heavy horror-movie trappings and good-natured positivism. Like Remy in Ratatouille,

Tasha Robinson

11 September 2008 4:56 PM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Danny Boyle may switch from zombies to fantasy as his next project may well be an animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Truckers. He will collaborate on the screenplay with Millions scribe Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Boyle told Coming Soon that Truckers, the first volume of the Bromeliad trilogy, will be done in association with DreamWorks, which acquired rights to the books in 2001. "[Animation is] a weird different discipline, it's very strange," Boyle told the website. "You're more like a ringmaster, kind of organizing this huge army of illustrators who can change the movie. It's really weird. They often do scripts and they have no gags in them at all, but then you see the finished film and it's full of funny gags, and they say that it's not in the script, that all comes through the process of the animators. It's like learning the skill of letting certain ones of them off

Robert Greenberger

11 September 2008 8:39 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Danny Boyle has revealed that he is planning to direct an animated adaptation of Terry Pratchett's popular children's book Truckers. The first part of Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy, Truckers focuses on a group of tiny people called "nomes" who live under the floorboards of a department store. Boyle told Coming Soon that his Millions collaborator Frank Cottrell Boyce will pen the script for the DreamWorks film. Discussing the differences between directing live-action and animation, (more)

By Simon Reynolds

10 September 2008 4:19 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Coming Soon recently sat down and chatted with Danny Boyle about his future projects. Apparently, the director would like to develop an animated flick based on the children's book "Truckers" by Terry Pratchett.

The focus of the book is a outer-space race of small people who try to survive among humans. "Truckers" is part of a trilogy entitled "Bromeliad." Boyle said he would like to reteam with Frank Cottrell Boyce, screenwriter of Boyle's "Millions."

Boyle recently showed his latest flick, "Slumdog Millionaire," to audiences at the Toronto Film Festival. Click here to see what else Boyle had to say about this animated project.

Franck Tabouring

18 August 2008 12:52 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Beloved British author Terry Pratchett has criticised a decision by the U.K. government to limit the use of a drug which helps the later stages of Alzheimer's disease.

The writer, 59, - who announced he was suffering from a rare form of the disease last year - slammed ministers for reducing the use of the drug Aricept.

Pratchett says, "I feel particularly angry on behalf of early onset patients because it feels like an insult and the younger you are the more insulting it is.

"A lot of people with early onset have got dependents both younger and older and they're trying to hold down a job.

"It is a really nasty disease and I cannot imagine cancer patients being denied a drug like this in similar circumstances."

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13 March 2008 11:55 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Beloved British author Terry Pratchett has refused to rule out euthanasia as he battles Alzheimer's disease.

The writer, 59, - who announced he was suffering from a rare form of the disease in December - says medically-assisted death is an option for people battling the degenerative disease.

He says, "My view is that when there is clearly no 'me' left, whatever else might be left, then painlessly disposing of the remnants would be a sensible idea."

Meanwhile, Pratchett - who this week (ends14Mar08) donated $1 million (GBP500,000) to the Alzheimer's Research Trust - is determined to continue writing.

He says, "My plan is to do two more books. I believe that should be possible and hope I will do more.

"But the moment it becomes physically difficult and too problematic then, well..."

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13 March 2008 12:17 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

British author Terry Pratchett has vowed to pledge $1 million (GBP500,000) for research into Alzheimer's disease.

The writer, 59, announced he was suffering from a rare form of Alzheimer's disease in December.

But Pratchett says he is prepared to go to extreme lengths in order to beat the disease.

He says, "Personally, I'd eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance.

"I am, along with many others, scrabbling to stay ahead long enough to be there when the cure comes along.

"Say it will be soon - there's nearly as many of us as there are cancer sufferers, and it looks as if the number of people with dementia will double within a generation.

"It is a shock to find out that funding for Alzheimer's research is just 3 per cent of that to find cancer cures."

Prachett is expected to make his donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust at their annual conference this week (ends14Mar08).

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