Variety has announced that David Tennant and Michael Sheen are to join the cast of Amazon’s Good Omens, an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett novel of the same name, which has Gaiman attached as writer and showrunner. Tennant will play the “fast-living demon” Crowley, with Sheen as the “somewhat fussy angel” Aziraphale.
The official synopsis for the six episode series reads:
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – the world’s only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded – the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea…
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons – well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel – would quite like the Rapture not to happen.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…
Good Omens is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video in 2018.
Originally published August 15, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
