From the NYCC 2023 panel :) (Rob is sitting next to Maggie :))
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On a more positive note about the NYCC clip 😅, was it difficult choosing which clip you wanted to show? Did you get to choose or was it a case of just showing what had been finished editing-wise?
Mostly (as I recall) it was about who was available to go to New York and be on the panel. Quelin Sepulveda was there so we chose a Muriel scene. If Miranda Richardson had been available instead (for example) we might have chosen a Shax scene.
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Good Omens Parody will arrive with a very special delivery…🧺 Could it be more than just the Antichrist? All shall be revealed, May 10, on YouTube.com/Hillywood
Not to pre-judge (because maybe this will be really good), but Good Omens is already largely a parody. It’s a parody of hegemonic 20th/21st century English Christianity, among other things (like a lot of other cultural stuff). If we’re going to parody Good Omens, should we also parody, IDK, Discworld novels? The power of parody is in using absurdity to point out problems in Serious Things. Good Omens already does that.
I guess next we get parodies of Weird Al songs.
I grew up reading Mad Magazine which means I grew up reading brilliant Dick De Bartolo and Mort Drucker/Jack Davis/Angelo Torres parodies of all sorts of movies and TV shows, many of which were comedies, and one thing I learned early from that was that anything could be parodied.
Good Omens was indeed a parody, or at least it took making fun of The Omen as a jumping off point to tell its own story. But it’s done with The Omen very quickly and off telling its own tale.
(In Weird Al terms it’s close to one of those songs he writes like “First World Problems” where he isn’t parodying a specific song, but instead he’s pastiching a musical genre and writing an original song.)
Based on Hillywood’s past videos, this isn’t really going to he a parody on Good Omens anyway. They make parodies of songs, using fandoms as the topic.
That too …
I have to ask. Is it related to Amazon in any way? Does Amazon get any money by promoting it? I really don’t get why are the official accounts trying to shove it down our throats if it’s 100% unofficial and fan made, and tbh even less when we all know they have crumbs to promote the actual series with. Releasing that scene from NYCC, for example, so that fans are not purposefully punished for not living in NYC or even the US? Amazon could do that. Just saying.
It was made by fans. They announced it two years ago, fundraised mostly through Patreon, and made it. The official accounts are posting it because we can, and because the time is not yet ripe to put out trailers and such.
Personally, I love people making stuff inspired by Good Omens. I think it’s a good thing.
Did you know people have made animatics of the Season 2 scene you mention?
And we weren’t “purposefully punishing” people for not being in the US or New York. We were rewarding the people who made it to the panel at New York Comic Con. There’s a difference. Honest.
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About Neil and Terry vs. Crowley and Aziraphale :)
Q: People often wonder if Aziraphale and Crowley are based on you, Neil, and Terry. Neil, is there any truth to that? And, Rob, if so, who's Aziraphale and who's Crowley?
Rob: There is no doubt in my mind: Neil Gaiman is Crowley, look at the glint in his eye.
Neil: I think it's perfectly fair to say that in the creation of Crowley, Terry took the things that I did, that he thought were hilarious, like wearing sunglasses indoors when I didn't need to - I was younger then, and he thought they were just hilarious, so he put a lot of me into Crowley, but then we both put a lot of ourselves into both of them. You know, there's... really what was most important for Terry was just that people would think he was the good one. So if any bricks came through any windows, they were gonna to come through mine. Which is why in all photos, I am the one in black. Terry, who never wore white, would always go and borrow white clothes from people to be [in white] in all the photos.
Rob [wearing a white jacket]: This wasn't worn... there's no accident that I'm wearing this today, Neil.
Q: How would things be different if Tennant and Sheen switched roles
Neil: You know, they keep talking about that, they'd both come up to me independently and suggested that at some point I might like to write a Good Omens stage play so they can swap roles each night.
Flamethrowers in Season 1
Neil: If you're gonna talk about the differences between Season 1 and Season 2, the fact that in Season 1 our first shooting in the bookshop was cancelled because of the blizzard outside and the second day we had to shoot interiors because people with flamethrowers were trying to melt the ice in the puddles outside.
Douglas: It was so cold that we had to go to Scotland for Season 2 to get warmer.
Neil: Yes. So we built our wonderful set of Soho inside this time and while we never actually got warm it didn't blizzard.
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Was the scene you showed at NYCC for Good Omens 2 completely finished? I mean in terms of background music and… all other things besides the script and the editing…
No. The music was temp, the picture wasn't graded in the way it will be at the end, the sound wasn't done.
Micheal Sheen was originally cast as Crowley
(I will never tire of hearing this 🥰)
Neil Gaiman: The truth is that Michael was meant to have played Crowley. That was where it all began: was me going, 'Who do I know who could be Crowley? Michael Sheen loves the book, Michael would do it.', called Michael, do you want to do it, and he's like, 'Yes!', I thought, 'Great, I have a Crowley.'. So when I started writing the scripts, I was writing them going I know I have - at least I have my Crowley, I have Michael Sheen. And around the middle of Episode 3, I was going, 'This Crowley doesn't really feel a lot like Michael Sheen.', and I wrote this sceen when Crowley comes down the center aisle of a church hopping like a man on a beach on a hot day 'cause it's walking on holy ground and I thought, 'David Tennant would be really good at that, I could get David Tennant.', and then when it was all done I figured I had to break it to Michael, that he wasn't going to be Crowley, that I wanted him to be Aziraphale, and he read the scripts, and we had this really really awkward dinner, that because I was trying to pluck the courage to break it to Michael that I wanted him to play Aziraphale, and Michael was trying to find the way to break it to me that he did not want to play Crowley that he wanted to play Aziraphale having read the scripts. So it was an awful dinner until the end where we just like, 'Oh, you too?! Oh! Oh, good! Well I'm thinking of David Tennant, oh good you like him. Okay.' So it became a lot easier at that moment.
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Perhaps sometimes you think "I wonder what that Neil Gaiman does on Fridays when he isn't answering questions on Tumblr?" So here is what I did last Friday... (Although there weren't 40 people in the crew. Only two).
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Anonymous asked:
Hello! First I would like to thank you for the summary of the panel. You are incredible! I saw the video of Michael and David in the rehearsed joke would you say it's an indication that they are fighting at the end of the season being opened to the third? Just speculation of course. Looking forward to summer 2023 :D
Hiya! :) Aw, thank you so much! ❤ No, I think it's them playing the long joke after the Staged series where they act like this, arguing about the billing and so :).
I love Staged, so took the opportunity to write this Staged style.
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In case you missed it:
About Michael Sheen imitating David Tennant :)
Neil: Michael Sheen, people forget, that in addition to being an amazing actor, Michael Sheen is also an amazing mimic. During one of the very final scenes of Good Omens I as a producer had the headphones on and all of a sudden David Tennant started saying awful things about Michael Sheen. Just, you know, hear this Crowley and Aziraphale talking and Crowley is saying all this stuff about how, you know, Aziraphale is fat and Michael can't act and all of this stuff is going on. And I'm like, whaa- but David is the nicest man in the world. And then the penny drops that it's Michael just sitting there doing a pitch perfect David Tennant as Crowley.
The Staged-like joking from the NYCC 2022 Good Omens panel Zoom call :)
Neil: He [Michael] was not easy to persuade...
Douglas: He was kind of difficult about it, wasn'he?
Neil: We had to tell him that he was the star...
Douglas: ...and that David wasn't.
Michael: Hello! Hello everyone! It's such an honour to be here with you at New York Comic Con. WHOOOO! The first question here comes from-
David: Is this? Oh. Oh! Helloooo New York Comic Con! Oh, how lovely to be here everyone. When Neil and Douglas asked me to be here I said, 'Well, I'm actually rehearsing for a play right now.' But they said-
Michael: Did they tell you you were the star?
David: Yeah, well, they pointed that out - hello, Michael - but they also said, you know, I'm the doctor.
Anonymous asked:
Hey, first of all joining the love for keeping us updated and all that.
Do you know where you can find the full good omens panel when you have a digital ticket to watch back? I can't find it on the popverse website.
Also I have been made aware that the zoom call from the panel in its fullness is found in the panel highlights on the popverse youtube channel. (around the 5 minute mark)
Figured you might want to know that
Hiya! The video is on the same page as was the stream (if you're logged in through the reedpop as was in instructions :)), reloading the page is needed if you still have it opened since the stream :).
Ooooh! Brilliant, thank you so much! :) Link for the video with zoom is here! :)
Wonderful video of the Zoom from the NYCC Good Omens panel with Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Jon Hamm. Unfortunatelly the first part of the zoom it seems that there were some technical difficulties so there is only sound but the second part is okay :).
Fortunately Neil’s asking about the whole being put up :).
Update: the Zoom without the blackout is here :)
(though I recommend also watching here what precedes the zoom - what Neil and Douglas say before it :))