Although the novel is set in an alternative universe, the Feegles speak in a broad Glaswegian dialect.
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A film based on Sir Terry Pratchett’s comic fantasy The Wee Free Men is being developed by The Jim Henson Company.
This is not the first attempt to adapt The Wee Free Man. Pratchett’s daughter, Rhianna – co-director of Narrativia and a prominent video game scribe who has worked on projects like 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot and its 2015 WGA Award-winning sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider – will pen the film adaptation’s script.
Terry Pratchett’s young adult Discworld novel is getting adapted by the Jim Henson Company, which means we’ll finally see young witch Tiffany Aching in action. “It had all the hallmarks of something that had been good, and then the studio had got involved”. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegles – aka the Wee Free Men – a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Narrativia, launched by Terry in 2012 as an independent production company, owns and controls the multimedia and merchandising rights to all of the writer’s works, which have sold more than 85 million books worldwide to date. The Wee Free Men tells the story of nine-year-old Aching searching for her missing brother after a spate of Fairyland monsters have appeared.
Brian Henson of The Jim Henson Company will serve as producer of the film.
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“The Discworld series is a richly developed world with devoted fans, myself included, and there is no-one better than Rhianna to bring Terry’s beloved project to life on the big screen”.
