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.
- we might get to see how they play into other stories in the bible. 6000 years - most of that time is before the Arrangement, and hopefully we might get to see them fight / battle, or see their reactions to things like noah or moses or someth
- maybe insight into how the Arrangement started
but anyway - getting new scenes that help to build the friendship that they have over the past 6000 years. that’s really important to me. i think it will be so amazing! and hopefully pretty funny! and some more insight into their characters as well. plenty of stuff to fic!
5) actually, just, generally the fact that there are multiple(? the metatron too i hope, + fem!crowley???) nonbinary characters in a tv show. do you know how important that is
11) more angels, crowley and aziraphale’s friendship, relating back to #1. plus, a new ending ??????????????? dude??? that sounds amazing??? i’m excited
12) the bookshop fire scene, quite honestly. i know david can do some damn good tragic acting and i think that that scene will blow us all away (and i hope they keep it in!). i have some hopes that he’ll almost cry
14) crowley with a plant mister
15) dolphins…
16) the . the kraken. please
17) crowley’s yellow eyes 👀👀👀👀👀
18) a visual of aziraphale going “HERE TAKE THIS” [SHOVES A FLAMING SWORD INTO EVE’S HANDS]
that’s just some stuff off the top of my head there’s so much more tbh ahdflfjdlflkdsas i’m so so excited
When you read a post and marvel at how much is on the money.
(Having said that 9, 10, 12-16 and 18 have still to be filmed. We finally reach the bookshop on Monday. And we burn it down on the 20-22nd.)
elsinore-and-inverness asked: Is Dog really going to be CGI? *imustnotreadthedailymail imustnotreadthedailymail*
Huh? No, that’s hilarious. Ollie, who plays Dog, played his last scene last week. He is very not CGI.
He’s gorgeous, and incredibly sweet. Hang on, let me go and read the article.
(Goes and reads.) (Counts five untrue statements before the article starts. I like the bit where David goes off to his trailer for an hour. I think we probably lost five minutes while the medic checked his leg, and he never left the set.)
On the CGI thing, as soon as we realised that in the scene David was doing, Ollie was getting overexcited, and he thought he was meant to do what he’d been trained to do the last time he was on that location, we knew we couldn’t do the scene again with Ollie in it in later takes. So we put down green markers to show where where Ollie was, after that, and we’ll drop in Ollie from other takes if we need them.
You can listen to this anywhere in the world. It will start going out on Dec 25th, Xmas Day. It will go out daily, and then you can listen to each of the 6 episodes for the month following its broadcast.
Those of you who are familiar with the BBC Dramatisisation on CD or Audible (http://amzn.to/2nIoRh6) will notice that this version is shorter. Material that was trimmed to make it fit the time slot was restored when it was released commercially.
In Episode 1 you can hear me and Terry doing our cameo as police officers. Terry could no longer read at that point, so I would say the line and he’d repeat it. Only he wasn’t sure which lines were his and which were mine, so he’d repeat all of them.
So some of you might have seen me reblogging this picture:
Because right there in between Jon Hamm and Michael Sheen, rocking no hair and a wheelchair and a massive cardigan, is me, Kat. AKA tumblr user mouldygoblin. And at the back on the left is @neil-gaiman. (And my parents are in there too, bless them.) How did this happen? Well, I’m about to explain…
I have never wanted to steal a jacket so badly in my life. Witchfinder uniform is just 👌👌👌
Thank you, Neil, for linking to a non Daily Mail site: https://t.co/jfJJ8SetI0
The traditional “throwing away of the firelighters” moment, recorded for posterity by papparazzi…
(Technically, it’s not his jacket: it belonged to a Witchfinder Corporal who passed on with honour, and was given to Newt that morning by WF Sgt Shadwell. Newt did not actually earn any of those medals.)
One of those days of filming #GoodOmens when anything you post would be a spoiler and reveal secrets. So here is a photograph of probably an orange chicken shape.
You know, I was super excited to hear that Good Omens was being made into a show. Then I was super disappointed when I learned that so many of the characters would have to be cut or combined. I understood why, but I was disappointed. However, getting to follow the progress of the show on your tumblr has not only helped me come to terms with that but gotten me excited again. Thank you, Mr. Gaiman, for keeping us all in the loop.
When I pointed out that I had over 300 speaking parts and needed to cut some, I wasn’t talking about anything or anyone in the book. Very few characters in the book had to be cut from the tv series for reasons of budget or time. (I can think offhand of six altogether, and two of them don’t have any dialogue in the book.)
When I talked in that post about cutting and combining characters, I was talking about characters who I’d created to tell the story with. For example: In the burning of Agnes Nutter scene in the book, nobody except Agnes says anything at all. In the TV version, in addition to about a hundred villagers, there are four speaking parts: Agnes Nutter, Witchfinder Major Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer, Witchfinder Private Maggs, and Old Goody Larmour. That I’ve eliminated one other speaking part and given her lines to Old Goody Larmour is something that you will never notice and will not care about. (We’ll also meet Agnes’s daughter and son in law, because I’m dramatising things that are mentioned in the book or alluded to.) So that’s honestly not something to worry about…
Traffic warden. Bentley. Crew. Director. We are only missing Terry Pratchett. Or I am. #GoodOmens
OK I’m narrowing this down to a 3-½ litre coupe 1934-1935. To me, it’s obviously a Derby Bentley - from after Bentley was purchased by Rolls-Royce in 1931. The first new models came out in 1933, with sales to the general public in 1934. I went with 3-½ instead of 4-½ because, although the bonnet length looks remarkably similar (at least to me), the 4-½ wasn’t available until 1936.
The fully functioning, rolling chassis were built in Derby at the Rolls Royce factory and then finished at one of more than a dozen coachbuilders for a body to be placed upon it. Only a year after introducing the 3 ½ Litre model, no fewer than fourteen coachbuilders - Arnold, Barker, Cockshoot, Freestone & Webb, Hooper, Mann Egerton, Arthur Mulliner, H.J. Mulliner, Gurney Nutting, Park Ward, Rippon, Thrupp & Maberly, Vanden Plas, and James Young - would all be building their own special bodies on this chassis. Over half the cars were built with Park Ward bodywork. The vast majority of cars featured bodies from the UK, but a handful were fitted with bodies produced in other countries. (x)
There are some distinctive features on this example - like the vent windows (or pillared front windows), grooved running boards, and the ridges down the front fenders - that I was unable to find on any one car. I searched for photos of THIS particular vehicle and wasn’t able to find any.
It is indeed a 3 ½ litre Derby model. Coachwork by the Thrupp and Maberly company.
I know nothing about cars but I loved chatting to its real owner about the car and its history.
