Good Omens
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:41 am
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Terry Gilliam talks Good Omens again
The Brothers Grimm director hasn?t given up on one of his planned projects ? bringing Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman?s apocalyptic comedy Good Omens to the screen?
[29 Jun 2006 1:13pm]
Terry Gilliam is a frustrated man. And who can blame him? He?s seen dream projects like The Defective Detective and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote wither on the development vine or stumble into production only to be cursed with bad weather worse luck.
His latest two films ? The Brothers Grimm and Tideland ? were greeted with low box-office and mixed reviews. But it hasn?t stopped him clinging on to the idea that he?ll get one of the movies he?s pushing to make off the storyboard and on to screens.
Good Omens, the comic take on an Omen-style anti-Christ and a war between heaven and hell has long been a passion of Gilliam, who has been trying to film Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett?s book for years.
"I have struggled to find big projects that inspire me, but this book has,? he told Teletext. It's very funny, about the anti-Christ and devils and angels, it's very funny and inspiring. I have tried to find a small project like Tideland that I could do but I haven't found one."
He was also outspoken about the fact that it?s not just making films that?s annoying Gilliam right now ? it?s cinema in general. "I find it so dispiriting these days, maybe because I'm getting older. Films don't seem to surprise me any more, they don't leave pieces of shrapnel in me like they used to. The last one to do that was probably Crash, which kept playing with my prejudices."
Still, maybe if Stardust ? based on Gaiman?s graphic novel is a success, Gilliam might get the break he needs.
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Terry Gilliam talks Good Omens again
The Brothers Grimm director hasn?t given up on one of his planned projects ? bringing Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman?s apocalyptic comedy Good Omens to the screen?
[29 Jun 2006 1:13pm]
Terry Gilliam is a frustrated man. And who can blame him? He?s seen dream projects like The Defective Detective and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote wither on the development vine or stumble into production only to be cursed with bad weather worse luck.
His latest two films ? The Brothers Grimm and Tideland ? were greeted with low box-office and mixed reviews. But it hasn?t stopped him clinging on to the idea that he?ll get one of the movies he?s pushing to make off the storyboard and on to screens.
Good Omens, the comic take on an Omen-style anti-Christ and a war between heaven and hell has long been a passion of Gilliam, who has been trying to film Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett?s book for years.
"I have struggled to find big projects that inspire me, but this book has,? he told Teletext. It's very funny, about the anti-Christ and devils and angels, it's very funny and inspiring. I have tried to find a small project like Tideland that I could do but I haven't found one."
He was also outspoken about the fact that it?s not just making films that?s annoying Gilliam right now ? it?s cinema in general. "I find it so dispiriting these days, maybe because I'm getting older. Films don't seem to surprise me any more, they don't leave pieces of shrapnel in me like they used to. The last one to do that was probably Crash, which kept playing with my prejudices."
Still, maybe if Stardust ? based on Gaiman?s graphic novel is a success, Gilliam might get the break he needs.
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I'd hate to see other Gaiman stories get twisted around until it's not the same. Look at what happened with War of the Worlds.