Good Omens: Neil Gaiman to adapt Terry Pratchett collaboration for TV

Old Man · 17 Apr 2016 at 06:42

How cool!!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/tvandradioblog/2016/apr/15/good-omens-neil-gaiman-to-adapt-terry-pratchett-collaboration-for-tv?CMP=fb_gu

Jokester · 17 Apr 2016 at 14:20

Love this book.

Dano · 17 Apr 2016 at 14:59

Great book, hope they do a good job on this else I might just cry

stewski · 17 Apr 2016 at 15:07

I Hope they get someone awesome to direct like Terry Gilliam.
For me, no one has nailed a Pratchett adaptation yet; maybe with Gaiman on board they finally will.

Jonny2284 · 17 Apr 2016 at 15:49

I really hope they get it right, but I don't hold out a lot of hope for much to be right beyond a story that features Aziraphale and Crowley and a pair of babies switched at birth, one of whom happens to be the anti-Christ.

Five gets you ten the whole thing is moved to some American suburb too.

Punt · 17 Apr 2016 at 16:23

I enjoyed the book many moons ago. Hope they do it justice!

PermaBanned · 17 Apr 2016 at 16:26

The Radio 4 adaptation was very good. Wonder if the American Gods TV thing is still going ahead.

Bickaxe · 17 Apr 2016 at 16:29

It will be as close to the book as Neil Gaiman can get it (allowing for a screen adaptation). Speaking at Terry Pratchetts Memorial, you could tell he was reluctant. He is about 3/4 of the way through it though and it will come down to everything from Locations to Director to Cast which has to be perfect as its a very personal thing to him/them.

FTM · 19 Jan 2017 at 14:44

it has been confirmed, and Gaiman is doing the scripts so it should be faithful and the humour will match, as opposed to say another writers intrepretation of the humour in the book..some sort of bbc project with amazon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/bbc-studios-good-omens

checjb · 20 Jan 2017 at 09:49

Awesome! I love that book and with Amazon and the BBC combining their efforts it should be really good. I'm actually excited. And it'll premier on Prime Video so I don't have to wait for it to reach the beeb.

Hotwired · 20 Jan 2017 at 09:51

I have got to get round to reading it. I heard part of it on the bbc as a radio version. Think I've read everything else he did...

SpeedFreak · 20 Jan 2017 at 10:41

Guards! Guards! movie please.

Hotwired · 20 Jan 2017 at 11:31

I dunno that it works well making his fantasy/comedy diskworld books into films.

Nothing is ever taken seriously.

Bickaxe · 20 Jan 2017 at 15:34

We still have Wee Free Men (in collaboration with Jim Hensons Workshop), MORT and The Watch series (BBC) to come.
Should cover the next 5 years.

peterwalkley · 7 Oct 2018 at 11:28

Thread bump, but we have a trailer !!!!!!

Release is next year on Amazon Prime. A little bit more here from Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018...irst-trailer-for-much-anticipated-good-omens/

dowie · 7 Oct 2018 at 13:06

Ah looks good.

Would be great if amazon/Netflix or HBO had a go at some diskworld books too. I know Sky made some TV specials and the BBC will be attempting something soon but might be nicer if someone with a bigger budget was able to produce a series.

SPG · 7 Oct 2018 at 18:34

Such a good good book, Casting looks perfect

Main casting looks perfect

Werewolf · 7 Oct 2018 at 19:07

I'm lookiong forward to this, i think there is or was a City Watch/Night Watch TV series in pr production but i've not heard about that for a while.

Jonny2284 · 8 Oct 2018 at 08:13

Holy crap, I take back everything I said earlier, they may actually do this justice.

Bickaxe · 9 Oct 2018 at 08:10

Werewolf said:
I'm lookiong forward to this, i think there is or was a City Watch/Night Watch TV series in pr production but i've not heard about that for a while.

Scripts are being written at the moment.

Looking forward to this as well.