Plan B Forum

A film based on Sir Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy The Wee Free Men is being developed by The Jim Henson Company.



The book tells of a young witch's adventures with the NacMac Feegles, a fierce clan of kilted sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men.

The characters are known as "pictsies", a name based on the Picts, tribes that were dominant in Dark Age Scotland.

Sir Terry's daughter Rhianna Pratchett is adapting the novel for the feature film.

She is an award-winning scriptwriter for videogames, comics, film and TV - and won the Women in Games Hall of Fame award in 2013.

"... (I) frankly thought was awful.  It seemed to be 'Wee Free Men' in name only.  It had all the hallmarks of something that had been good, and then the studio had got involved.  It probably won't get made."

"I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English.  I thought it was time for some regional representation.  And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen 'Braveheart' altogether too many times."

Bicycle Bill wrote: He announced in 2009 that he'd gotten the rights back.

"I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English.  I thought it was time for some regional representation.  And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen 'Braveheart' altogether too many times."