Here's some good news for fans of 'Good Omens'! Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett co-wrote 'Good Omens' in 1990 and though the book doesn't have a sequel, Gaiman has revealed that after the huge success of its TV adaptation, season two of the show will be out soon. The announcement was made by Gaiman on his website on June 29 which led to his website collapsing soon after due to the huge traffic.
Gaiman also revealed that though he and Pratchett didn't write a sequel to 'Good Omens', they did roughly sketch out a plot for it! It was in 1989 when Gaiman and Pratchett were attending a convention in Seattle when they thought about extending the plot. Both the authors were sharing a hotel room to save money, and it was then in the middle of the night when they couldn't sleep that they "plotted the sequel to 'Good Omens'".
"Many, many years ago (it was Hallowe'en 1989, for the curious, the year before 'Good Omens' was published) Terry Pratchett and I were sharing a room at the World Fantasy Convention in Seattle, to keep the costs down, because we were both young authors, and taking ourselves to America and conventions were expensive... 'Good Omens' had just been sold to UK publishers and then to US publishers for more money than Terry or I had ever received for anything... So we lay in our respective beds and having nothing else to do, we plotted the sequel to 'Good Omens'. It was a good one, too. We fully intended to write it, whenever we next had three or four months free. Only I went to live in America and Terry stayed in the UK, and after Good Omens was published Sandman became SANDMAN and Discworld became DISCWORLD™ and there wasn't ever a good time. But we never forgot it," Gaiman wrote on his official website.
Sharing this will now form the basis of a second season of the TV show, Gaiman further wrote, "It's been thirty-one years since 'Good Omens' was published, which means it's thirty-two years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention, and plotted the sequel. (I got to use bits of the sequel in the TV series version of 'Good Omens' -- that's where our angels came from.). Terry was clear on what he wanted from Good Omens on the telly. He wanted the story told, and if that worked, he wanted the rest of the story told."
Gaiman, worked as an executive producer and co-showrunner for season 1 of 'Good Omens' and will continue to do so for season 2 of the show. He will be co-writing the show with John Finnemore and other guest collaborators. "I'd been a fan of John Finnemore's for years, and had had the joy of working with him on a radio show called 'With Great Pleasure', where I picked passages I loved, had amazing readers read them aloud and talked about them. I asked John if he'd be willing to work with me on writing the next round of Good Omens, and was overjoyed when he said yes. We have some surprise guest collaborators too," Gaiman revealed.
The sets of season 2 are being made in Scotland where the shooting will start soon.
"There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next (and also, what happened before) to our favourite Angel and Demon. Here are, perhaps, some of the answers you've been hoping for," Gaiman said, sharing more details about the much-anticipated sequel of the show.
