Good Omens movie adaptation

Will star David Tennant (Doctor Who, Jessica Jones, Broadchurch) as Crowley the demon and Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Queen) as Aziraphale the angel.

This was an extremely good novel co-written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman about the End Times... well, Heaven and Hell want the End Times, the Four Horsemen are on the march... but the Antichrist got mislaid due to a cock-up at the Satanic Nunnery, you see, and then there are Crowley and Aziraphale, who've been on Earth far too long and actually rather like it the way it is. Oh, and the last two Witchfinders. And some witches who they might end up fancying.

If they do the "company execs on a paintballing exercise meet a pissed-off demon" bit right, they'll have my vote.

More news on this, and it seems I was wrong about the movie bit - it's a six part Amazon Prime miniseries:

Poster:


Frances McDormand (Fargo) will be the Voice of God (guess Alanis was busy). Updated cast list also at the link:

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/good-omens/51370/good-omens-news

First trailer - Tennant is coming off a bit too Tenth Doctor but Sheen is about right as Aziraphale.

Sooo cheesy.

New trailer.

It’s dropped and if you’re a fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, you’ll love the opening. If you’re not a fan of brown people, you’ll quickly hate it.

I'm finishing it up now, it's been wonderful.

A right-wing Catholic group, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, started a petition demanding that Netflix cancel Good Omens.

Netflix replied:

Don't anyone tell them about the chilling adventures of Sabrina or lucifer.

Why is it the rest of the world needs to be sanitized for a program they simply don't have to watch?

Will you watch Netflix witcher series, with Race riots?

A new Good Omens short has dropped.

Gaimen’s writing it based on and idea he and Terry had but never got around to writing.

Correction, now that his blog's not being hammered by traffic, I see that they're getting ready to start shooting.

What will it be about?

Great, had never read the book but loved the first series.

A New Good Omens Audiobook Has Nabbed Your Favorite Crowley and Aziraphale

One of the few cases where a book that I absolutely loved was better in the TV adaption.

In all but one case (Silence of the Lambs), in my experience, the book is ALWAYS better.

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was a masterpiece compared with the book, despite the gnashing of Stephen King and his fan's teeth.

Agreed. Though I did find Doctor Sleep a lot of fun, and it did a good job of merging the background of both the book and movie versions of the Shining. Not a classic like Kubrick's, but fun in it's own way, and interesting take closer to King's vision.

But then guys like King and Chrichton put out tons of books that aren't great, but fantastic story ideas. Lots of King's movies are better than the books, and even some of his short stories were made into something much more, like Shawshank. Chricton's Jurassic Park was OK, the original movie was excellent.

Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Blade Runner, lots of movies exceeded the books they were based on. Hell, the Godfather. Even if most books are better than the movies that follow.

I'm not into horror, so I've never sat through The Shining. Think I read the book, though because I do like pre-Bachman Stephen King's style of writing. But here's the thing with King. He writes an excellent novel. And none of them translate well to the big screen because King's style is all about what his characters are thinking and why they do the things they do. You can't write that into a script and no one ever can see what someone else is thinking. So, in my opinion, King's novels never translate well into movies.

Deets!

Neil Gaiman Delivers a Good Omens Season 2 Sneak Peek at NYCC

Good Omens Season 2 Will Be Available This July

New clip, doesn't seem to be on YouTube yet.

https://twitter.com/GoodOmensPrime/status/1679158707387760643?s=20