Warning! Some SPOILERS for what we saw being filmed while on set in South Africa. Good Omens is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 31.
Occasionally the apocalypse arrives at the wrong time.
It’s happened to Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s cult comedic novel about the end of the world. At the turn of the millennium, director Terry Gilliam was poised to make a feature-length adaptation with an impressive Hollywood cast.
“Johnny Depp playing Crowley and Robin Williams was playing Hester, madam Tracy, and Aziraphale. Kirsten Dunst, I think playing Anathema,” co-author Neil Gaiman tells me. “He
just needed some money from America, a big studio to sign on. He went out, and it was just after 9/11. And no big studio was interested in a comedy about the end of the world. They just weren’t. They were like, ‘Please go away and stop bothering us’. And the thing fell apart.”
Source: IGN.com Good Omens: How Amazon Brought About the Apocalypse (in a Good Way)