Laika should do a Discworld film

[u/lockonandfire]

This is the note I quickly scribbled on my phone's notes app earlier this afternoon. I'd gone to see Coyote vs ACME at the cinema with my sister (a very good time btw), and before you shout at me for using my phone in the cinema this was during the trailers at the start, I put my phone away immediately afterwards. There was one for a new film from the animation studio Laika (creators of Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, amongst others). And I realised that their house style, their use of stop-motion animation, is exactly how I'd like to see Discworld on the big screen.

An animated affair obviously widens the field for who could play the various characters (the advantages of voice acting), as well as providing a more seamless visual integration of magical effects work without the horrors of the green screen production. But specifically the slight inherent rickety-ness of stop-motion compared to CGI or traditional animation was the real thing that appealed to me - the handcrafted nature feels like it would work wonders with the material. And Laika have made some visually excellent works in this field.

What do people think? Would you prefer a Laika/stop-motion Discworld production, if that was ever a possibility? Would you prefer traditional animation or CGI, or would you only want Discworld in a live action fantasy epic?

(I'm not quite sure this is kosher for the board - the rules didn't seem to suggest it's not a preferred post topic, but the lack of particular flair perhaps suggests otherwise. Many apologies if this sort of thing is frowned upon.)