Reported by Rama Gaind.
Director: Toby Genkel, Icon Film Distribution
Written by Terry Rossio and based on the book by Terry Pratchett, here’s a furry tale with a whiff of intrigue! The Amazing Maurice is the first animated feature film to be based on a Pratchett novel.
As the storyline goes: rats! They’re everywhere. In the breadbins, dancing across the tabletops, stealing pies from under the cook’s noses. So, what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away.
That’s where Maurice, a streetwise tomcat with the perfect money-making scam, comes in. Everyone has heard of the stories about the pied piper and the town full of rodents. So, Maurice has found his very own pied piper and a plague of rats to trick gullible townsfolk into giving him lots of cash.
All is going well until they arrive in the far-flung village of Bad Blintz where they meet a book-obsessed girl called Malicia, who enlists their help to solve the mystery of her town.
Director Toby Genkel has introduced a whole new generation of people to Pratchett’s enthralling imagination.
“We created a piece that delivers on the promise of the novel in its visual and narrative vigour. I’m always impressed with how Pratchett manages to be casual and light- hearted yet, at the same time, unyielding, critical, and edgy. This is exactly the spirit we brought to our film. The visual and audio levels work in absolute harmony.”
Voice cast includes Hugh Laurie (House) as Maurice, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Malicia, Himesh Patel (Yesterday) as Keith, Ariyon Bakare (His Dark Materials) as Darktan and David Tennant (Doctor Who) as Dangerous Beans.
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With more than 100 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, Terry Pratchett was awarded an OBE in 1998 and knighted for services to literature in 2009.
- The Amazing Maurice is screening in cinemas
