GAIMAN offers to STEP BACK and take a backseat role, so the show can go on!

hello again fellow good Omens fans and welcome to another very special edition of news bites where I bring you the latest good omen news on Monday September 9th a story broke that the season 3 production of good Omens had paused and that some sort of talks about potential production changes were happening behind the scenes today Wednesday September 11th deadline has released a new report that Neil Gaiman is understood to have made an offer to Amazon Studios to take a back seat on season 3 in order that the show can continue this this offer takes place during what the article calls crisis talks concerning this third and final season of what is then phrased as the Terry pratchet adaptation the deadline piece goes on to say that it is understood that Amazon is considering his offer and that no final decisions have yet been made it is also confirmed that good omen season 3 is already in the early stages of pre-production deadline reached out to both Amazon Studios and G's representatives and while Amazon has declined to comment gon's Representatives have simply not responded Gaiman has denied the accusations and his offer to step back is not an admission of wrongdoing on his part in my opinion this is at least potentially positive news for the show and essentially the best that fans can hope for I had expected Amazon to request that he step back but it looks like he's taken the initiative and understands what they want done without being told to do it we know that Neil Gaiman and Terry pratchet were good friends and gaimon has stated on multiple occasions that he is dedicated to creating this show in order order to honor his friend and that Terry wanted good Omens to be adapted for the screen this is speculation on my part but it does sound like Neil Gaiman has the best interest of the show in mind and it won't hurt his image either to be seen in that light putting Terry's Legacy and the show before himself the source of the recent information about the show being paused and gaiman's apparent offer to step back is clearly not official as deadline carefully uses the word understood multiple times so this is potentially a little leak possibly on purpose from Amazon Studios to test the waters good Omens seems to be at least a somewhat lucrative property for them and they will want that money flow to continue through season 3 and not have their reputation or their revenue stream harmed by any decisions they make the article uses the phrase crisis talks which is interesting and seems to indicate that the show could still potentially be cancelled I don't say this to scare anyone I know we're all on edge right now I certainly know I'm on edge right now I just want to keep an open mind and reason expectations because we still don't know the final outcome of these crisis talks but I think this is a step in the right direction as far as what taking a back seat might look like I think it's most likely that he would be replaced as head showrunner he might also step back as one of the executive producers he would by necessity continue on as the main writer that's one area where I don't think that he can be entirely replaced the story is his and Terry's and only he knows what Terry and he planned so many years years ago for that second book that never came to fruition there's no reason why Amazon would start over from scratch and have someone write new scripts when they have complete or nearly complete versions by Gan already bought and paid for and although Neil was the sole writer for season 1 he did collaborate with John finmore while writing season 2 so there is the potential that someone else could even take over the last stages of script editing and rewrites if this thought scares you I totally understand but again a companion to owls is one of the best parts of season 2 so we know there are other writers who get good Omens and since we do know that Gaiman has at least nearly completed the scripts that means there's the solid base for what he and Terry had planned that someone else can potentially work from all the same I don't expect Neil to be completely removed from the project immediately I think it's likely that he will be able to continue the quiet nonpublic facing script work and step back from the more public facing showrunner and possibly executive producer positions Amazon Studios MGM official Gooden's page lists five showrunners including Gman Rob Wilkins is an executive producer and not one of the showrunners I know fans including myself have speculated that he might take over a showrunner but I'm not sure he has the experience for that position however as long as he continues on in his previous capacity as executive producer I'm sure he'll continue to have some creative input as he did in the previous seasons and that's a positive thing there is probably a lot a lot of speculation going on in the fandom right now about whether or not Amazon will take this offer and who might potentially replace Gaiman as showrunner I really don't think it will be Rob Wilkins but there are three other showrunners who've been involved in the production cat Clark Jeremy Dyson and Andy nyman I'm not familiar with the latter two but cat Clark also wrote the season 2 mini the Body Snatchers if I had to guess who might replace G in from existing crew members my guess would be her if they go for someone outside of the first two seasons that I have no good guesses but I'm interested to read your speculation in the comments below who do you think might take over if Amazon does accept gamon's offer to step back this is not the first big potential change to the show director Douglas McKinnon left the project in late 2023 and Gan let slip in an interview in April of 2024 that a new director had already been hired we still don't know who the mystery director is so I'm also curious if people have any speculation there assuming production goes forward I think we'll start getting these sorts of official cast and crew announcements regularly as the filming date approaches and speaking of cast announcements actress Dune mckin who plays the power hungry Angel Michael had an interview that was published today in the guardian it's a really good read and I definitely recommend you go check it out for yourselves link to the article in the description she discusses her life career choices and the many projects she has worked on in a list of previous and current projects the article states that next year year she will be reprising her role in the Amazon show good Omens this certainly sounds like she's already been contracted for next season aside from the official announcement that Michael Sheen and David Tennant have been contracted we have very little cast news so I'm happy even to have this little hint we've heard some other hints that we might see Michael mcken and Paul chahi return whether to reprise their previous roles as witch finder Sergeant Shadwell and sandalin respectively or return as new characters we can only guess I expect that news might come pretty fast over the next few days to a week and thanks to my wonderful friends and Discord members I'm able to bring it all to you as soon as we hear it so keep your eye out for more news videos in the near future as far as the news itself I'll always bring it to you unbiased and share my opinion only afterwards I am after all just a fan like you a big fan a more than slightly obsessed fan but still just a fan so I'm right here with you hoping we see a positive announcement that the production of season 3 will be moving forward that the pause is brief and that all of the wonderful creatives who've put so much of their work and talent into the show will get to finish it and of course for sir Terry we all want to honor his memory so that's all of the news and my related speculation as of today we will be keeping our eye out for any further developments in this story and Reporting on them as soon as they are released thank 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