It is 2018. The Good Omens adaptation goes live on Amazon. We all queue up the first episode and press play. The Amazon logo appears, followed by… Rami Malek singing?
The Good Omens adaptation has metamorphosed into the Queen biopic.
And I beheld, and lo, a black horse; and he that sat on him had a bread-knife in his hand. And I heard a voice say, This is under-proved, and that is over-baked; and see that thou blend thy flavors wisely.
And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and her name that sat on him was Judgement, and Dismissal followed with her. And power was given unto her over the earth, to bake, and to taste, and to examine, and to diplomatically criticize.
And I saw under the judging table the souls of them that baked: and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, dost thou not judge and avenge the sweat of our brow on them that write the technical challenges?
Amazon are paying for it, so I think it’s a dead certainty that it will be on Amazon.
It follows the book very closely, although it also includes things and people that Terry and I had talked about over the years as things we’d do if we made Good Omens into a film or into TV (a lot more angels, for a start), and it includes a sort of mini movie about Aziraphale and Crowley’s friendship over the last 6000 years, and I also did some stuff to the plot at the end to stop anyone who has read the book from becoming too complacent during the final episode.
Honestly my ideal casting for Good Omens is to just… cast like 100 people each for Crowley and Aziraphale. So Aziraphale enters a room as Michael Sheen and leaves it as Richard Ayoade. Crowley switches from David Tennant to Riz Ahmed to Sue Perkins between cuts. This is literally never remarked upon by anyone. All the actors get a roughly equal amount of screentime.
