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  • ‘Good Omens’ Season 2 Announces New Cast Members

    ‘Good Omens’ Season 2 Announces New Cast Members

    Ahead of Season 2 of Good Omens, Neil Gaiman‘s fantasy series for Amazon Prime in conjunction with BBC studios, the studio has officially announced the cast list.

    Michael Sheen and David Tennant will return to their roles as Aziraphale and Crowley respectively, and Derek Jacobi will also return as Metatron. The trio will be joined by newcomer Dame Siân Phillips.

    Also returning this season are Mark Gattis, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, and Niamh Walsh. They will be joined by a series of newcomers including Tim Downie (Outlander), Pete Firman (The Magicians), Andi Osho (I May Destroy You) and Alex Norton (Pirates of the Caribbean).

    Other cast includes Jon Hamm, Miranda Richardson, Maggie Service, Nina Sosanya, Doon Mackichan, Gloria Obianyo, Liz Carr, Quelin Sepulveda, and Shelley Conn. Unfortunately, neither Benedict Cumberbatch, nor Francis McDormand will be returning for Season 2.

    Season 2 of the show will no longer be following the novel of the same name. As the series continues, new plotlines will develop the relationship between the main characters as they are greeted with a brand new story full of potential.

    The show is currently being developed in Scotland, and writer Neil Gaiman had this to say with the new casting announcement: “We are so thrilled that we were able to get so many fabulous actors to return to the Good Omens family. Some of them are reprising roles, some of them are playing completely new characters. And we are just as thrilled by the people coming to the Good Omens team for the first time. We have an ensemble cast of astonishing talent, and seeing what they’re giving us is a daily treat. I can’t wait until the rest of the world gets that treat, too.”

    The show is certainly lining up an excellent cast, even if it is disappointing to lose Cumberbatch and McDormand as God and Satan, the rest of the cast list is looking jam packed. Although announced in June 2021, we still have no solid confirmation of a release date of the new season.

    Source: Deadline

  • Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Scrapped Ideas Serve as Inspiration for ‘Good Omens’ Second Season

    Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Scrapped Ideas Serve as Inspiration for ‘Good Omens’ Second Season

    In a surprise twist, Amazon Studios has renewed the once limited series Good Omens. It’ll explore the aftermath of the first season that saw Aziraphale and Crowley getting banned to the very Earth they saved. what shocked people about this revelation was the fact that there was no sequel book by authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Well, it seems that the idea to create a second season was born from scrapped ideas for a sequel that they developed some time ago but never followed upon. Gaiman offered some insight into this in a statement:

    It’s thirty-one years since ‘Good Omens’ was published, which means it’s thirty-two years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention, and plotted the sequel. I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens — that’s where our angels came from. Terry’s not here any longer, but when he was, we had talked about what we wanted to do with ‘Good Omens,’ and where the story went next.” And now, thanks to BBC Studios and Amazon, I get to take it there. I have enlisted some wonderful collaborators, and John Finnemore has come on board to carry the torch with me. There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next (and also, what happened before) to our favourite Angel and Demon. Here are the answers you’ve been hoping for. We are back in Soho, and all through time and space, solving a mystery, which starts with an angel wandering through Soho, with no memory.

    We also got a key art offering a small glimpse at what we can expect from the upcoming sequel:

     

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    There is currently no release date planned, but they aim to start productions sometime later this year. Michael Sheen and David Tenant are set to return in their iconic roles. Director Douglas Mackinnon is set to return with Gaiman acting as showrunner, who will write the episodes alongside Josh Cole. It’s an exciting venture to see an author continue a scrapped project through a different medium and a nice way to pay tribute to the late Terry Pratchett‘s legacy. We cannot wait to see what awaits Aziraphale and Crowley once they return to the streaming service.

    Source: Collider