Paste reports the almost inevitable news (first noted at Empire) that Terry Gilliam is keeping the dream alive. He once was lost (in La Mancha), but he will be found.
“[Producer] Jeremy Thomas is very close to getting all the pieces of paper signed from all the people who you gotta get signed,” Gilliam told us. “He’s been on it for a year now, and he’s come the closest to getting it untangled from the legal swamp it was in. And, um, I don’t see why, I donæt see anythying that’s gonna stop it now. He’s just gotta get all the paperwork done and then I call Mr Depp and see which pirate film he’s still on”.
And there’s still hope for Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman fans that Good Omens will be a Gilliam movie.
“I’m the only one who can make it, ‘cos that’s what Neil and Terry have said. I’m the only one”, Gilliam insists. “And I thought with Neil, with Stardust and with Beowulf and there’s another one … an animated film, a Henry Selick thing he’s written [Coraline], I was thinking he’s really hot now, so maybe there’s a chance. I mean it’s such a wonderful book. And I think our script is pretty good, too. We did quite a few changes. We weren’t as respectful as we ought to have been. But Neil’s happy with it!”