Film at Eleven

This is the maddest bit of news I’ve seen in a long time.

Monsters and Critics reports that a planned movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens - which was to star Johnny Depp and Robin Williams and be directed by Terry Gilliam - is on hold because American investors can’t raise $15 million.

Let me repeat this.

Good Omens is a fantastic and wildly popular fantasy novel, written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - two of the most consistently entertaining, original and popular authors working today.

The proposed film was to be directed by Terry Gilliam - a consistently original director who is more than capable of bringing this book - brilliantly - to the big screen.

And it was to star Johnny Depp and Robin Williams. Either of these actors can guarantee a box office hit on their own.

And yet this isn’t worth an eighth of the budget for The Island?

No wonder Gilliam’s amazed.

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