The sheer joy that the rats take in their work – tap dancing in the butter and blowing raspberries at the townsfolk – will immediately allow our audience to appreciate the fun and mischief behind the scam. Visually, this will be achieved by use of bright colours and upbeat music – for example the opening scene of the marketplace will be a buzzing, vibrant location and the appearance of the rats will be comic and fast paced. For the production, it is by using this atypical Pratchett humour and by carefully editing the visual elements to moderate the darker aspects of the story, so as to ensure and support the family entertainment genre that we strive to retain, all without losing the notorious Terry Pratchett edge.” Director’s Note – Toby Genkel “He has succeeded in capturing, distilling, and brilliantly bringing to the page, the original, the effortlessly cool and the subtle yet slick humour of Pratchett.
“My enthusiasm for this book notwithstanding, a story as extraordinary as this begs the question: how to make it family-friendly? This question has been skillfully answered by scriptwriter, Terry Rossio,” says director Toby Genkel. The Amazing Maurice is the first animated feature film to be based on a Terry Pratchett novel
Fortunately, the Producers have been able to take advantage of Narratavia’s close working relationship with Terry Rossio, whose adaptation of Pratchett’s novel “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents” is ingenious, crafting a screenplay that both retains the essential spirit and tone of the original book, but which is also a lively and entertaining adventure, keeping the high quality and humour of Pratchett’s characters and dialogue. Writing a screenplay for any well known book can be a challenging process, especially for someone as loved and passionately followed as Terry Pratchett. Terry Rossio, one of the highest-grossing screenwriters of all time, whose extensive credits include Shrek, Aladdin, and Pirates of The Caribbean has penned the screenplay for The Amazing Maurice, an incredibly lively, unique and entertaining animated feature was inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin and is based on one of Sir Terry Pratchett’s highly popular “Discworld” novels that have sold more than 100 million books worldwide.
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