This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

We’ve seen a couple of attempts at establishing a Marvel-style cinematic universe crash and burn over the last few years. DC are stepping back to focus more on standalone films, and Universal have more or less abandoned their attempt at a Dark Universe. Only Fox’s X-Men universe is still going strong, and that’s not so much a cinematic universe as a succession of movies about related characters that don’t even take place in the same fictional universe or timeline as each other. And yet, Marvel continue to cover themselves in glory and box office records, with Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War both in the worldwide all-time box office top ten already. Other movie studios are unlikely to have given up on the hunt for a successful cinematic universe yet, so we have a suggestion for them – the Discworld cinematic universe, or DCEU.

There have been attempts to bring the Discworld to the big screen before, though they have tended to be derailed by unfortunate differences of creative opinion, like studio executives wanting to take the Death stuff out of Mort, a story about Death’s apprentice. Up until now, the Discworld has had more success finding a home on the small screen, in both animated and live action forms. Good Omens, the novel Pratchett wrote with Neil Gaiman, is also soon to come to the small screen. As fairly lengthy and plotty novels, really faithful adaptations of Pratchett’s stories work well in televised serial format.

But while the Discworld may be an overwhelming prospect for a single movie adaptation, that’s what makes it perfect fodder for a cinematic universe. The Discworld is a huge, sprawling place, full of exotic locations, colourful characters and climactic action set-pieces. The cast of characters is enormous and can be divided into a series of groups: Rincewind, other Wizards, the Lancre Witches, Tiffany Aching, Death and his Family, the City Watch, and Moist von Lipwig, plus six standalone novels that feature recurring characters but focus on someone new. This means that, just as in a comic book universe, the DCU could made up of several series of movies featuring particular characters or groups, all loosely inter-connected.