Neil Gaiman Wants Good Omens Movie To Move Forward Soon--With Gilliam?

Will acclaimed Monty Python & the Holy Grail and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen director [...]

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Will acclaimed Monty Python & the Holy Grail and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen director Terry Gilliam finally get his shot at making Good Omens? That's what a lot of people are taking away from the video interview between the novel's co-writer Neil Gaiman and the conservative-leaning news magazine site The Daily Beast, embedded below. "If a Good Omens adaptation happens we would like it to happen while Terry [Pratchett] can still see it," Gaiman said of his co-author, who suffers from Alzheimers and has already handed off his biggest franchise, the Discworld series, to his daughter. Pressed whether such an adaptation would be helmed by Gilliam, who has a long history with the work, Gaiman was less forthcoming. "I can say nothing. Nothing. I will say nothing, My lips are sealed," Gaiman said, but added: "Put it this way: I'm an enormous fan of Terry Gilliam's and Terry has been trying to make it in one form or another since about 1989." The project has taken a number of different forms over the years, most recently as a TV miniseries that never developed. Gaiman, who is working on a prequel to his best-selling Sandman series of comics this year for DC/Vertigo, recently had his novel American Gods greenlit for a series at HBO.

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