petermorwood:unicornempire:fuckyeahgoodomens:Terry wrote to me and he said  ”You have to do this ”-

petermorwood:unicornempire:fuckyeahgoodomens:Terry wrote to me and he said  ”You have to do this ”- he began this email, I went back and looked at it the other day -  ”I know how busy you are, but you are the only person who has the same understanding of and passion for the old girl that I do, so you got to do it ‘cause I want to see it.” And I said yes. And very shortly after, Terry died. So now he couldn’t see it. So I had to make the thing that he wanted, which meant it became kind of a mad passion project. The things that if it was a me-project I would’ve given away on, things I wouldn’t have held the line on like some kind of a mad-eyed prophet.Suddenly I’m going ”No, you cannot take this out. This is going to be in there. Because Terry wrote that scene and he would have wanted to see it, so it’s in there.” And they’re like ”Oh, but do you know how much money we could save if you don’t actually see Agnes Nutter being blown up and arrested and dragged to the stake, we got this idea,” said an early bunch of producers who later left, ”that we could have woodcuts and the narrator explaining what happened. Isn’t that just as good?”And I sort of mentally run that by the ghostly Terry Pratchett in the back of my head, it’s like: ”Terry, is that just as good?” And he’s like: ”Fuck ‘em.”Good Omens is an amazing piece of film and art BECAUSE someone who was creative and had vision passionately fought to keep it that way.I am SO TIRED of watching mishmash movies that were clearly made by Producer Decisions and Executive Interference ~ Good Omens honestly feels like one of the first things I’ve watched in ages that managed to remember what it was from start to finish, and I have no doubt it’s entirely because of Neil and his passion to keep it like how he and Terry wrote it in his honor. And that’s amazing, I’m so glad that he fought so hard for it, because now we all get to enjoy this amazing piece of artwork and love it together. The TV trope isn’t called “Executive MEDDLING” for nothing.”Mort” was once considered for a movie, but the producers told Terry to get rid of the “Death” character. He said their “reasons” were things like: “depressing, frightening, won’t play in Middle America” blah blah blah.Terry, not needing their money or their bullshit,told them to get stuffed. I remember him speculating whether “NO” and “THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN” were the most powerful, most rarely heard word and phrase in Hollywood. As in so many other things, he was probably spot on… :-DI’m reading Good Omens now, and it lines up with the show practically word for word, and I’m impressed. A lot of film/tv adaptations lose the original spirit by straying too far away, and here they didn’t make a step to the side. -- source link

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