Neil Gaiman is turning Good Omens into a six-part TV series

[dasmoocher]

Link.

Cool. Hope they don’t muck it up. The book was one of the funniest things I’ve read.

NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One Shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Wichfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:
Two farthings = One Ha’penny. Two ha’pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.
The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.

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English Burger Lords managed to take any American fast food virtues (the speed with which your food was delivered, for example) and carefully remove them; your food arrived after half an hour, at room temperature, and it was only because of the strip of warm lettuce between them that you could distinguish the burger from the bun. The Burger Lord pathfinder salesmen had been shot 25 minutes after setting foot in France.

Good Omens quotes.

[Johnny_Bravo]

I’m already devoting too much mental energy to not worrying about whether they’re going to muck up *Sandman *or American Gods to not worry about whether they’re going to muck up Good Omens.

[Drunky_Smurf]

Cool. I can’t wait.

[silenus]

1. Cool hat.

B. 6 parts? They’d better be 2 hour blocks then.

#. Benedict Cumberbatch would make a good Aziraphale.

[Cumbrian]

My mind’s eye always had Rowan Atkinson as Crowley and Stephen Fry as Aziraphale. They’ll be cheaper and more available than Cumberbatch too!

I can see this being pretty good, mostly because I can see Gaiman taking utmost care due to not wanting to let Terry down. Where on his own work, he might see compromise to get it to screen as viable, I can see him really wanting to get Good Omens spot on.

[Penfeather]

@Cumbrian

My mind’s eye always had Rowan Atkinson as Crowley and Stephen Fry as Aziraphale. They’ll be cheaper and more available than Cumberbatch too!

Stephen Fry for Aziraphale, yes, but Colin Farrell for Crowley.

[Maggie_the_Ocelot]

@Cumbrian

My mind’s eye always had Rowan Atkinson as Crowley and Stephen Fry as Aziraphale.

That works.

[silenus]

Both are too old for the parts these days. Ageless creatures or not.

[Knowed_Out]

Jonathan Rhys Meyers should play both roles.

[MrDibble]

@silenus

#. Benedict Cumberbatch would make a good Aziraphale.

Someone’s way ahead of you…I like their choice of Crowley, too.

Although, in my headcanon, Crowley is always played by Gaiman himself. For some reason, Aziraphale is played by James Dreyfus (It may have been the “Gayer than a treeful of monkeys on Nitrous Oxide” line that did it)

[Kamino_Neko]

@Johnny_Bravo

I’m already devoting too much mental energy to not worrying about whether they’re going to muck up *Sandman *

Stop worrying about that…switch to ‘resigned acceptance’… The direction New Line (who now holds the rights, due to some weird corporate shit) wanted to go was enough to prompt Joseph Gordon-Levitt to detach himself from the project and since his obvious fandom was half the reason people were optimistic…

(The other half was that Neil himself was attached to it…that he hasn’t disavowed it, yet, so far as I know, is reason for cautious optimism, but since he was only an Executive Producer and thus probably not very involved…)

[GoodOmens]

Robert Downey Jr. as both Aziraphale and Crowley. Though I could easily endorse MrDibble’s idea.