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Spoilers Amazon's Good Omens mini-series

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Amazon announced that they're producing a six-episode mini-series of Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, set to debut in 2018. Gaiman will be writing and running the show.

Almost thirty years ago, Terry Pratchett and I wrote the funniest novel we could about the end of the world, populated with angels and demons, not to mention an eleven-year old Antichrist, witchfinders and the four horsepeople of the Apocalypse. It became many people’s favourite book. Three decades later, it’s going to make it to the screen. I can’t think of anyone we’d rather make it with than BBC Studios, and I just wish Sir Terry were alive to see it.
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I'm really excited about this production! Good Omens was my first Gaiman novel and it's my second favorite of his, after Neverwhere.

I wonder if they'll keep any of the cast members from the radio drama that was produced a couple of years ago.
 
I've always appreciated Good Omens more than other Gaiman stuff and felt it was the Pratchett in the mix, I just hope that doesn't get lost.
 
The show will debut at New York Comic Con this weekend and Neil Gaiman did an extensive interview with Deadline. The bulk of the interview is about the second season of American Gods, but there are some interesting tidbits about Good Omens, particularly how some unused material from the unwritten sequel shows up in the final episode:

GAIMAN: There are ideas that I took from the sequel to Good Omens that Terry and I talked about but never wrote, which is where our angels come from.

DEADLINE: Interesting.

GAIMAN: Yes, there were things that Terry and I had talked about and planned but we’d never actually got to use so I got to steal from that. I got to reshape some of the plot just a little so that the plot keeps kicking until the last minute of episode six. Because if we’d just done the book then the plot would have ended halfway through episode six and we would have spent the rest of episode six saying goodbye to people and it would have been like the third part of Lord of the Rings, only even worse.

So, I reconfigured it, because it’s television, because I can.​
 
We finally have a trailer...and it looks amazing!

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Welcome to end times, indeed.
 
I saw an article on Tor.com about the cast the other day, and this has one of the absolute best casts I have ever seen. Seriously, like top 5.
Here are the biggest names:
David Tennant as Crowley
Micheal Sheen as Aziraphale
Jon Hamm as Archangel Gabriel
Micheal McKean as Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell
Miranda Richardson as Madame Tracy
Frances McDormand as the voice of God
Derek Jacobi as The Metatron
Nick Offerman as the US Ambassador
There are a few other people in the cast I'm a big fan of that aren't as big of a deal.
 
Derek Jacobi is doing Alan Rickman's part? Cool.

Of course I'm talking about The Metatron as depicted in Dogma, but it was a great job by Rickman.
 
Yeah, the whole cast is absolutely killer. Those are the biggest names but lots of great character actors, too, like Adria Arjona, Reece Shearsmith, Ned Denehy, Daniel Mays, Sian Brooke, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss.
 
matthunter said:
I've always appreciated Good Omens more than other Gaiman stuff and felt it was the Pratchett in the mix, I just hope that doesn't get lost.
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According the Gaiman, the parts people assume Pratchett wrote Gaiman wrote and vice versa. :)

Neil Gaiman said:
I got to reshape some of the plot just a little so that the plot keeps kicking until the last minute of episode six. Because if we’d just done the book then the plot would have ended halfway through episode six and we would have spent the rest of episode six saying goodbye to people and it would have been like the third part of Lord of the Rings, only even worse.
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That's my big problem with the final part of the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Good Omens from a few years ago -- the sixth episode becomes interminable because the story's over but the episode just won't end. I thought Dirk Maggs needed to give that a serious rethink.

After hearing Peter Serafinowicz's Crowley in that production, I wasn't that thrilled with David Tennant's casting for the Amazon series; Tennant actually felt like a step down, and the trailer, where Tennant seems to be reprising the tenth Doctor, doesn't really help. Tennant's a bigger name, but damn, Serafinowicz was glorious.
 
Two pieces of news:

1) Benedict Cumberbatch will be voicing Satan!

2) We finally have a release date: May 31!

Edit:

I also just discovered that Amazon has released the wonderfully surreal and bizarre title sequence:

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OOoookkkk, I'm assuming that makes at least some sort of sense when you know the story.
 
Very much so. There a lot of references in it.

But that doesn't really matter because it's so wonderfully surreal and bizarre on own.
 
Well I guess since Christopher Lee isn't an option anymore, Brian Cox is a good choice.

For those unaware Christopher Lee played Death in all of the animated and live action Discworld adaptation, so this'll be the first screen adaptation of a Terry Pratchett book with Death as a character where he wasn't voiced by Lee.
 
I love this book SO much; it's one of my all-time favorites. I am very excited to see it, but I also know I'll drive hubby crazy with my constant "That's not how it was in the book" comments. :lol:
 
auntiehill said:
I love this book SO much; it's one of my all-time favorites. I am very excited to see it, but I also know I'll drive hubby crazy with my constant "That's not how it was in the book" comments. :lol:
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There's very little of the Witchfinder stuff in the trailers, which is worrying me... they'd best get Newt, Shadwell and Anathema right!
 
Just a reminder, Neil Gaiman is serving as show runner, so at least any changes that are made are coming from one of the original writers.
 
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