Gilliam and Grisoni Grab Good Omens for a Groat
We've said no to lots of people who
want to make it into a cool, big commercial film...
The ever wonderful BoingBoing is reporting on an RU Sirius interview with Neil Gaiman earlier this week where the author of Mirrormask and the forthcoming Matthew Vaughan helmed Stardust, talked about long discussed plans for Terry Gilliam to direct his novel Good Omens. Like Lars von Trier's next project, Good Omens - which Gaiman co-wrote with Terry Pratchet - concerns the antichrist.
In the interview Gaiman revealed that he had set the price of an option at one Groat.
RU SIRIUS: You're doing something with Terry Gilliam, who is absolutely one of my favorite directors.
NEIL GAIMAN: Terry has been working for many years on Good Omens, which is the novel that Terry Pratchett and I co-wrote about the end of the world…