{"id":9932,"date":"2006-10-09T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/09\/a-good-omen.html"},"modified":"2006-10-09T08:34:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:34:58","slug":"a_good_omen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/a_good_omen.html","title":{"rendered":"A Good Omen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, I would pay good money — good, non-matinee type money — to see a Terry Gilliam-directed adaptation<\/a> of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s end-of-the-world novel, Good Omens<\/em>. It’s a damned funny book, and I think Gilliam could really do it justice.<\/p>\n

And to think, a few years back, he had a chance to make it, with Johnny Depp and Robin Williams in the lead roles, and Hollywood turned it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I would pay good money — good, non-matinee type money — to see a Terry Gilliam-directed adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s end-of-the-world novel, Good Omens. 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