SUBMITTED BY Lynnith

June 5, 2002 — From Sci Fi Wire:

Charles Rovenproducer of the upcoming movie based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omenstold SCI FI Wire that writers Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni are trying hard to balance satire and blasphemy in the film adaptation. "We're trying very hard to crack that book with the screenplay," Roven said in an interview.

Roven added, "It's proving extremely challenging to walk the line of being funny and not too dark and not too blasphemous. But you've got to be blasphemous if you're dealing with that material. It's about an angel and a demon who have been put on Earth for many, many thousands of years, and they've gone native, and they like it. They find out that the end of the world is going to come with the Antichrist, and they try to protect the Antichrist as he appears and change him, make him not so bad."

The angel and demon's efforts prove for naught, when they realize their kid was switched at birth with the real antichrist, who is still out there ready to do evil. Roven also expects Gilliam (Brazil) to direct the film. "I know that he wants to direct it," he said. "He would have directed already if we would have been able to put all the pieces together, but we just haven't been able to do it. It's hard and complicated."