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The Amazing Maurice is a 2022 animated feature film adapting The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - the first produced feature film adaptation of Terry Pratchett's work. It's produced by Cantilever Media and Ulysses Filmproduktion for Sky Cinema, in conjunction with Narrativia.

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.

Creative Team

Crew

Screenplay by Terry Rossio
Additional material written by Robert Chandler and Toby Genkel
Directed by Toby Genkel and Florian Westermann
Produced by Julia Stuart (Sky), Emely Christians (Ulysses), Andrew Baker and Robert Chandler (Cantilever Media) and Rob Wilkins (Narrativia)

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^[1]
Ariyon Bakare as Darktan^[2]
Rob Brydon as The Pied Piper
Julie Atherton as Nourishing
Joe Sugg as Sardines
Janin Ullmann as Nahrhaft

Podcast episodes

Major appearances

These are episodes primarily devoted to discussing this film.

Date	Show	Episode	External link
2022-12-24	The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret	Hogswatch 2022: “Mildly Fantasy Threatened”	thetruthshallmakeyefret.com
2023-02-05	Unseen Academicals	“The Amazing Maurice (film review)”	anchor.fm

Other appearances

Episodes where the film is discussed, but not as the main topic.

Date	Show	Episode	External link

External links

The Amazing Maurice at the Internet Movie Database
The Amazing Maurice at the L-Space wiki

Footnotes

↑ Tennant previously played Dangerous Beans in the 2003 BBC radio adaptation.
↑ Bakare also reads the new Penguin audiobook of the novel, released in October 2022 ahead of the film.

[1] Tennant previously played Dangerous Beans in the 2003 BBC radio adaptation.

[2] Bakare also reads the new Penguin audiobook of the novel, released in October 2022 ahead of the film.

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