Terry wrote to me and he said  âYou have to do this â- he began this email, I went back and looked at it the other day -  âI know how busy you are, but you are the only person who has the same understanding of and passion for the old girl that I do, so you got to do it âcause I want to see it.â And I said yes. And very shortly after, Terry died. So now he couldnât see it.
So I had to make the thing that he wanted, which meant it became kind of a mad passion project. The things that if it was a me-project I wouldâve given away on, things I wouldnât have held the line on like some kind of a mad-eyed prophet.
Suddenly Iâm going âNo, you cannot take this out. This is going to be in there. Because Terry wrote that scene and he would have wanted to see it, so itâs in there.â And theyâre like âOh, but do you know how much money we could save if you donât actually see Agnes Nutter being blown up and arrested and dragged to the stake, we got this idea,â said an early bunch of producers who later left, âthat we could have woodcuts and the narrator explaining what happened. Isnât that just as good?â
And I sort of mentally run that by the ghostly Terry Pratchett in the back of my head, itâs like: âTerry, is that just as good?â And heâs like: âFuck âem.â
