Written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Amazon Studios’ comedy series, ‘Good Omens’ takes place in 2018 when the Apocalypse is near and Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, and tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan — except a somewhat fussy angel, and a fast-living demon are not looking forward to the coming war, and someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.
‘Good Omens’ is set to star two big actors, David Tennant (“Harry Potter”) and Michael Sheen (“Midnight in Paris”), Amazon Studios, a division of Amazon.com, that focuses on developing television shows, distributing and producing films has confirmed.
Sheen will play an angel that works for God, named Aziraphale, and Tennant will be the opposite, a demon who works on behalf of the darkness, named Crowley.
According to the Christian post, the six-part series is set to debut in 2018 on Amazon Prime Video, with re-broadcasting taking place on BBC Two at a later date.
“Almost 30 years ago, Terry Pratchett and I wrote the funniest novel we could about the end of the world, populated with angels and demons, not to mention an 11-year old antichrist, witchfinders and the four horsepeople of the Apocalypse. It became many people’s favourite book,” Gaiman said in an earlier statement to The Guardian.
Gaiman is one of the series’ executive producers along with BBC Studios’ Caroline Skinner and Chris Sussman , as well as Rob Wilkins and Rod Brown on behalf of Narrativia and The Blank Corporation.
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