David Jason,
Tim Curry,
Nigel Planer, and
Sean Astin star in writer/director
Vadim Jean's imaginative adaptation of -The Colour of Magic and -The Light Fantastic -- the first two books in author
Terry Pratchett's popular
Discworld series of fantasy adventure novels. Naïve tourist Twoflower (
Astin) is on holiday in Ankh-Morpork when a terrible fire breaks out, forcing him to flee from the city alongside an incompetent wizard named Rincewind (
Jason). Now, as the clueless pair set out on a magical journey across the disc, neither realizes that they are merely pawns in an elaborate board game being played by the gods. After encountering a pair of barbarians on their way out of Morpork, Twoflower and Rincewind take a trip to an inverted mountain housing dragons that only exist in imagination, survive a fall off the edge of the disc during a perilous visit to the country Krull, and attempt to beat Rincewind's former classmate Trymon (
Curry) to a collection of eight spells that could save Discworld from total destruction. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide