TV and Film:The Amazing Maurice
| The Amazing Maurice | |
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| ASIN | [1] |
| IMDB | 10473036 |
| First Broadcast | TBA |
| Broadcast Channel | Feature Film |
| Director(s) | Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann |
| Producer(s) | Julia Stuart (Sky), Emely Christians (Ulysses), Andrew Baker and Robert Chandler (Cantilever Media) and Rob Wilkins (Narrativia) |
| Writer(s) | Terry Rossio |
| Starring | TBA |
| Duration | 85 minutes |
| Episodes | 1 |
| Series | Children's books |
| Annotations | Annotations for TV and Film:The Amazing Maurice |
| Notes | |
| Preceded by | The Abominable Snow Baby |
| Followed by | ' |
| All data relates to the UK home release. | |
The Amazing Maurice is an animated feature film adaptation of The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, produced by Cantilever Media and Ulysses Filmproduktion in conjunction with Narrativia for Sky Media. It is the first feature film adaptation of Terry Pratchett's works and the first to be originally screened in cinemas. (It’s UK premiere was at the Manchester Animation Festival, thought it’s first broad release in the UK was on Sky Cinema's pay television network.)
Blurb
Maurice, a streetwise cat, has the perfect money-making scam. He’s found a dumb-looking kid who plays a pipe, and his very own horde of rats – rats who are strangely educated, and literate, so Maurice can no longer think of them as “lunch”. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers... However, when Maurice and the rodents reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, their little con goes down the drain. For someone there is playing a different tune. A dark, shadowy tune. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. It’s not a game anymore. It’s a rat-eat-rat world down there and the educated rats must learn a new word...EVIL.
Cast
- Hugh Laurie (and Bastian Pastewka) as Maurice
- Emilia Clarke as Malicia Grim
- David Thewlis as Boss Man
- Himesh Patel (and Jerry Hoffmann) as Keith
- Gemma Arterton as Peaches
- Hugh Bonneville as The Mayor
- David Tennant as Dangerous Beans
- Ariyon Bakare as Darktan
- Rob Brydon as The Pied Piper
- Julie Atherton as Nourishing
- Joe Sugg as Sardines
- Janin Ullmann as Nahrhaft
Tie-in Books
Several books and new covers were released to tie-in with the release of the film:
- The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - with a new cover, plus an introduction by Rob Wilkins telling the story of how the book was imagined by Terry.
- The Unadulterated Cat - with a new cover and altered title, The Unadulterated Maurice, plus a new introduction by Rhianna Pratchett.
- Mr. Bunnsy Has An Adventure’' - a facsimile edition of the book from the story, as it appears in the film.
- The Amazing Maurice The Art Of The Film
External Links
- The Amazing Maurice at the Internet Movie Database
- The Amazing Maurice page at Narrativia (archived version of previous page)
- Cantilever Media
- The Amazing Maurice at the Ulysses Filmproduktion website
- Sky Cinema announcement on Sky Group website