Though filming on the adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's classic apocalypto-comedy novel Good Omens has entered the home stretch, Gaiman, serving as showrunner on the TV version, has added another fine performer to the cast. Nick Offerman will appear in the show.
Gaiman himself announced the news, using the current style of putting it in a tweet...
Offerman is playing the US ambassador, father to the child Warlock, who is mistakenly believed to be the antichrist. When the real spawn of satan turns up in a small English town, things start to move towards the end of the world again, which doesn't sit will with Angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon Crowley (David Tennant), who have grown rather fond of Earth and are thusly annoyed to discover that it might all be destroyed.
Gaiman is clearly happy with the addition. "There may not be anyone alive who can deadpan a line quite as well as Nick Offerman," he says. "He's a terrific performer, and has to say a lot of things in Good Omens that are humanly impossible to deliver with a straight face. Fortunately, Nick is not entirely human. We are very lucky to have him."
Offerman is similarly pleased to have the job: "If you had told me when I first read Good Omens in the early 90's that I would one day visit South Africa to giggle with Neil Gaiman at laptop-screened footage of Dr. Who and David Frost dancing because I was assaying a role in the adaptation of said book, I would likely have offered to purchase some of whatever you must be smoking. But here I am, still giggling at the luck of it."
Gaiman wrote the six-part series, which Douglas Mackinnon has been busy directing. The show is scheduled to hit Amazon worldwide in 2019, followed by BBC Two at a later date.
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