Terry Gilliam's Good Omens
Terry Gilliam had a script and major stars in mind, but could not persuade studios to finance an apocalyptic comedy before the rights moved on.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- detailed preproduction
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
An unmade feature adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel developed by Terry Gilliam.
An angel and demon would cooperate to prevent an apocalypse they had both grown too fond of Earth to welcome.
Existence timeline
The director works with the authors on a feature.
The novel is compressed for cinema.
Major stars are considered for the central pair.
Studios resist the budget and unusual tone.
Gilliam says the money cannot be assembled.
A television series follows a separate creative path.
Why it ended
Financing repeatedly failed in the post-September 11 market and the feature never entered production.
Last confirmed trace
Gilliam and the authors discussed the completed screenplay, casting and failed funding efforts in interviews.
What it left behind
The story eventually reached the screen as a separate television series, preserving the novel but not Gilliam's planned film.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to detailed_preproduction under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.