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More on "Good Omens" the Movie and Coraline

Posted by Hemos on from the go-and-purchase dept.

In a recent e-mail exchange I had with Neil Gaiman he confirmed that Terry Gilliam is the director for the adapation of Good Omens to the screen. On a side note, Gaiman has been working on Coraline and will be doing a signing of the book in the Barnes and Noble in Union Square, NYC on Thursday the 11th. That's today. Update: 07/11 13:15 GMT by CT : I just wanted to say 'Curse Your Terry Gilliam'! Ever since I read Good Omens, I wished I was a film director just so I could direct that book. I guess Terry will do a good job too ;)

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  1. HHG by zebs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm, according to amazon Good Omens is a direct desendant of Hitchhikers guide... now when is that movie ever gonna get finished?!

    Either way its good to see a Terry Pratchett book being made into a film, hopefully it'll get some Discworld books made into films too.
    I imagine that'd be pretty cool if you combined it with LoTR style effects and cinematography.

    1. Re:HHG by MartinB · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Clearly whoever wrote that hasn't read one or either of those books.

      ISTR PTerry saying that Mort had been optioned, and certainly Soul Music and Wyrd Sisters have already been turned into (reasonably good) animated films.

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  2. come on, CT by tps12 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please use the comment system like everyone else. That is not an "update," it is a topical comment.

    It's no wonder nobody respects the editors when they consider themselves too good for the discussion system used by the unwashed masses.

    What are you afraid of, being modded down? Being flamed? If you don't have the peas for it, post it AC.

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  3. Terry & the Holy Grail? by dbc001 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was just looking at Terry Gilliam's filmography on IMDB and noticed that there are two Holy Grail movies. Can anyone explain the difference between "Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail (1996) (VG)" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)". Also, has anyone read any of the books on Gilliam? Are they any good?

    -dbc

  4. Why the movie will be mediocre by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was going to entitle this "why the movie will suck," but I didn't want it to get automatically tagged as Flamebait.

    "Good Omens" was a brilliant book, and Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett were the right people to write it. The problem is that the book has a religious theme, and while Gaiman and Pratchett pulled it off brilliantly, Hollywood just can't do religion. "The Last Temptation of Christ" was the last gasp of good, thoughtful religious movies (and I would put "The Omen" among these,too). Since then, we've had to put up with crap like "Stigmata" and "A Walk to Remember."

    The combination of subtlety and humor seen in "Good Omens" when dealing with the interactions between Aziraphale and Crowley, Crowley's communications with hell, Aziraphale's interactions with heaven, and Aziraphale's comments on the author of Revelations, etc. etc. What we're inevitably going to end up with is a dumbed down, simpflified version of the whole thing that's going to insult our collective intelligence.

    On the optimistic side, Terry Gilliam has a good track record, so I could give him the benefit of the doubt.