The first season of Good Omens adapted the book of the same name by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett. The second season went beyond the book, with Gaiman closely involved with expanding the story. The third and final season was set to wrap things up, but then Gaiman was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women (he has denied the allegations) and exited the show. The third season is still happening, but it will now just be a 90-minute mini-movie coming out sometime later this year.
David Tennant, who plays the demon Crowley, sounded off Good Omens season 3 while speaking to the public on an interview show called The Assembly, per MovieWeb. "We're doing Good Omens again. We're going back to do the final," he said. "There's been a slight rejig with the personnel. But we still get to tell that story which I think, it would have been very difficult to leave it on a cliffhanger. So, I'm glad that's been worked out."
Indeed, the second season ended with the second coming on the horizon and Crowley on the outs with his soulmate, the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen). It's good to hear that will be resolved. As for Gaiman, Tennant didn't mention him explicitly, but there can be no one else he means when he talks about a "slight rejig with the personnel."
David Tennant criticizes Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling
David Tennant is used to working with controversial creators. He was also a part of the Harry Potter film series, playing Barty Crouch Jr in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Those movies are based on the Harry Potter books by author J.K. Rowling, who in recent years has become known for her transphobic views. She made headlines the other week for celebrating with a picture of herself smoking a cigar on her superyact after after the UK’s Supreme Court decreed that the terms “woman” and “sex” refer only to biological woman and to biological sex, an act actor Pedro Pascal described as "heinous loser behavior."
Tennant didn't quite go that far, but does seem to think that celebrating the further marginalization of a very vulnerable group is, at minimum, in bad taste. He compared the new ruling to a law passed in the UK in 1988 prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality. “We look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say, and I think the way the trans community is being demonised and othered is exactly the same," Tennant said. "It’s become this kind of political football.”
“JK Rowling is a wonderful author who’s created brilliant stories, and I wish her no ill will, but I hope that we can all as a society, just let people be," Tennant said. "Just get out of people’s way.”
HBO is currently working on a Harry Potter TV series, so we've likely not heard the last of these sorts of discussion, not by the shadow of a long shot.
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