YES!!! When I do my little mind-game of casting all the characters of Discworld, I *ALWAYS* come up with Jeremy Irons as the Patrician! That, and Dame Judy Dench as Nanny Ogg and Vanessa Redgrave as Granny W. Gylnwth Paltrow (sp?) as Magret most of the time, when she's not pissing me off with her Valley Girl attitude.

Hope they start on the Guards! seris before too long.

Tim Curry and Jeremy Irons are good choices, though I agree Alan Rickman would also have been a good choice for the Patrician (though I was expecting much more from his performance as Marvin the Paranoid Android). As much as I love David Jason, he seems an odd choice for Rincewind. Rincewind is described as being young and scrawny, neither of which attributes David Jason possesses. I imagine Rincewind to be more like a young Rowan Atkinson or Chris Barrie. Still, I look forward to seeing how they've done with the film adaptation. I'm sure it'll be enjoyable regardless of things I disagree on. A film adaptation's never going to be perfect, especially since a lot of a book is down to imagination and we all imagine things differently.