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Following on from reporting earlier this week that Amazon Prime Video and the BBC had paused pre-production on the ultimate season of their Good Omens adaptation, Deadline now additional experiences that Neil Gaiman, co-author of the unique novel, could step again from the collection totally.
Based on Deadline, Gaiman has provided to step again from the third and remaining season of the present—of which he was set to be one of many remaining government producers within the wake of director Douglas McKinnon’s sudden exit from the present—after what the commerce describes as “disaster talks over the Terry Pratchett adaptation’s future,” which allegedly noticed pre-production paused on the collection forward of its deliberate taking pictures in January 2025 earlier this week. io9 has reached out to Amazon for touch upon Good Omens‘ future with or with out Gaiman, and can replace this publish if and once we hear again.
The transfer comes after Gaiman was accused in July of sexual assault by a number of ladies the author had beforehand established consensual relationships with, in a collection of allegations specified by a podcast collection from Tortoise Media known as Grasp: the Allegations Towards Neil Gaiman. Following the collection, a number of extra ladies got here ahead in reporting by Rolling Stone. Deadline additional famous that Gaiman’s supply to step again was not an admission to the accusations laid out in opposition to him in Tortoise Media and Rolling Stone’s reporting, and that the allegations have “disturbed” the writer.
The alleged pause on Good Omens‘ pre-production additionally comes at a time when a number of different Gaiman tasks are set to start making main headways. Disney’s movie adaptation of his 2008 novel The Graveyard Ebook equally went on pause earlier this month. First reported by IndieWire, the pause on the movie was the fruits of “a number of components, together with the allegations [against Gaiman],” and the movie has not been scrapped.
In the meantime over at Netflix, plans are underway to disclose extra from the second season of its critically acclaimed adaptation of Gaiman’s comedian collection The Sandman later this week as a part of its “Geeked Week” presentation, though it stays unseen simply how and if the streamer will handle Gaiman’s relationship with the venture. The streamer had additionally lately cancelled one other Gaiman-connected collection, Useless Boy Detectives, late final month, though reporting on its cancellation made no point out of the continuing accusations in opposition to the writer.
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