The one who wrote Coraline, and co-wrote the book of Good Omens and made the TV show, also the Sandman comics writer and co-creator who made the Sandman TV show. Quite nice really.
This may or may not have to do with the plot of Good Omens 2, and if in that case it can receive a wait and see answer 😁. But I’m wondering how much of Micheal and David’s choices/acting in the first season influence how the second was written? Or, did you write anything specific because you knew David and Micheal (or anyone else cast) would be able to pull it off?
Super excited for the new season btw, I was shocked when it was announced. My second reaction though was - “Well if Neil is involved with it as much as he was with the first, and Micheal and David are still Aziraphle and Crowley, then everything will be great.”
I definitely had Michael’s Aziraphale and David’s Crowley in my head as I wrote. Which is not to say that they ever deliver any of the lines in the way that I expected, no more than they did in Season 1. They bring themselves to the parts.
THE AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES GOOD OMENS 2 BEGINS PRODUCTION IN SCOTLAND, REUNITING ITS COMPANY OF PLAYERS
Supporting David Tennant and Michael Sheen will be many of the key castmembers from Season One, some reprising their roles, others playing new characters
LONDON and CULVER CITY, California—November 2, 2021—Production has begun in Scotland on the second season of the Amazon Original series Good Omens, starring award-winning actors Michael Sheen (Quiz, Staged) and David Tennant (Des, Staged), who return in the leading roles of the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley. Supporting Sheen and Tennant are many of the key cast from the first season, who return for Season Two with some reprising their roles, and others playing new characters. Good Omens will stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide; a premiere date will be announced at a later time.
Originally based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel, the new season will explore storylines that go beyond the original source material to illuminate the uncanny friendship between Aziraphale, a fussy angel and rare book dealer, and the fast-living demon Crowley. Having been on Earth since The Beginning, and with the Apocalypse thwarted, Aziraphale and Crowley are getting back to easy living amongst mortals in London’s Soho when an unexpected messenger presents a surprising mystery.
Returning cast, some who are featured in new roles for Season Two include:
Paul Adeyefa (Bancroft, Ransom)
Michael McKean (This Is Spinal Tap, Better Call Saul)
Gloria Obianyo (Dune, High Life)
Miranda Richardson (Stronger, Rams)
Maggie Service (Quiz, Red Dwarf XI)
Reece Shearsmith (Inside No. 9, The League of Gentlemen)
Nina Sosanya (Red Joan, Killing Eve, Last Tango in Halifax, Screw)
The specific characters each actor plays will be revealed at a later time.
Writer and co-showrunner Neil Gaiman commented: “I am so happy to be back here on the streets of Soho, watching, every day, the glorious performances of Michael Sheen and David Tennant. I miss having Terry Pratchett’s genius, but it does feel like we are still all walking around inside his head. It’s been an absolute pleasure to have the brilliant John Finnemore co-write this season’s story shenanigans with me, and to work with director and my co-showrunner Douglas Mackinnon as he steers the ship, along with our astonishing crew, who have returned to do it again.In this season we get to have new adventures with old friends, to solve some extremely mysterious mysteries, and we encounter some entirely new humans (living, dead, and otherwise), angels, and demons. We were lucky in the first season to have so many outstanding actors taking part, so I took pleasure in inviting people back, wherever we could, some in the roles they played originally, some in new parts written just for them.”
Co-showrunner and director Douglas Mackinnon said: “Having a company of players reuniting for this second season of Good Omens is like bringing a family back together, this time in Scotland. Not only the cast, but also many of our Good Omens Season One crew have reassembled. Our team is being enriched with new talent on both sides of the camera so I am excited to be at the helm for six more episodes of what we hope will be heavenly entertainment.”
Neil Gaiman continues as executive producer and will co-showrun along with executive producer Douglas Mackinnon, who will also return to direct. Rob Wilkins of Narrativia, representing Terry Pratchett’s estate, John Finnemore, and BBC Studios Productions’ head of comedy Josh Cole will also executive produce, with Finnemore serving as co-writer alongside Gaiman. Good Omens is based on the well-loved and internationally best-selling novel by Terry Pratchett (Hogfather) and Gaiman. The new season is produced by Amazon Studios, BBC Studios Productions, The Blank Corporation, and Narrativia.
hello mr gaiman and happy halloween! as a very involved showrunner (and having done both), which way of filming is your preferred one for gomens? in a controlled studio or on location? :)
I’m loving shooting our Soho set in an indoors studio, rather than built outdoors on an abandoned airfield. Rain doesn’t make people miserable, snow blizzards don’t stop us from shooting, people aren’t cold and grumpy, we don’t have to hang lights from helium balloons to simulate daylight in midwinter.
But then, there’s often something fun about locations. You are somewhere real, and watching the amazing machine that’s a TV series in operation. Trailers arrive. Background actors get costumed. Magic happens…
Here. Have a few photos from St James’s Park, in September 2017.
We are in the top right corner. Thank you to everyone who voted for us. (And look! Lovely Suranne Jones on the left. She was Idris/ The TARDIS in ‘The Doctor’s Wife’, you know.)
tomhaldenby-deactivated20180818 asked: Do you know what platforms (netflix, Amazon ect) good omens will be on when it releases? And can you to tell us how closely it's going to follow the book?
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.
