Report: Neil Gaiman May Step Back From Good Omens‘ Final Season

Following connected from reporting earlier this week that Amazon Prime Video and the BBC had paused pre-production connected the last play of their Good Omens adaptation, Deadline present further reports that Neil Gaiman, co-author of the archetypal novel, whitethorn measurement backmost from the bid entirely.

According to Deadline, Gaiman has offered to measurement backmost from the third and last season of the show—of which helium was acceptable to beryllium 1 of the remaining enforcement producers successful the aftermath of manager Douglas McKinnon’s sudden exit from the show—after what the commercialized describes arsenic “crisis talks implicit the Terry Pratchett adaptation’s future,” which allegedly saw pre-production paused connected the bid up of its planned shooting successful January 2025 earlier this week. io9 has reached retired to Amazon for remark connected Good Omens‘ aboriginal with oregon without Gaiman, and volition update this station if and erstwhile we perceive back.

The determination comes aft Gaiman was accused successful July of intersexual battle by aggregate women the writer had antecedently established consensual relationships with, successful a bid of allegations laid retired successful a podcast bid from Tortoise Media called Master: the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. Following the series, respective much women came guardant successful reporting by Rolling Stone. Deadline further noted that Gaiman’s connection to measurement backmost was not an admittance to the accusations laid retired against him successful Tortoise Media and Rolling Stone’s reporting, and that the allegations person “disturbed” the author.

The alleged intermission connected Good Omens‘ pre-production besides comes astatine a clip erstwhile respective different Gaiman projects are acceptable to statesman making large headways. Disney’s movie adaptation of his 2008 caller The Graveyard Book similarly went connected intermission earlier this month. First reported by IndieWire, the intermission connected the movie was the culmination of “multiple factors, including the allegations [against Gaiman],” and the movie has not been scrapped.

Meanwhile implicit astatine Netflix, plans are underway to uncover much from the 2nd season of its critically acclaimed adaptation of Gaiman’s comic bid The Sandman aboriginal this week arsenic portion of its “Geeked Week” presentation, though it remains unseen conscionable however and if the streamer volition code Gaiman’s narration with the project. The streamer had besides precocious cancelled different Gaiman-connected series, Dead Boy Detectives, precocious past month, though reporting connected its cancellation made nary notation of the ongoing accusations against the author.

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