With the show a little more than a couple of months away, you'd think all the casting for Good Omens would have been announced already. And yet the book's co-writer and the adaptation's show-runner Neil Gaiman took to twitter to reveal that Brian Cox is playing death in the show.
You can see something of what he looks like in Gaiman's post (captured below), and Cox marks the latest big name to be part of the series, alongside Frances McDormand as God and Benedict Cumberbatch as Satan.
Omens, based on the cult favourite tome Gaiman wrote with Terry Pratchett, promises to be by turns dark, philosophical and barkingly funny, if the source material is any indication. Angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and demon Crowley (David Tennant) have got rather fond of Earth and are thus annoyed to discover that the Antichrist is going to show up and bring it to an end. Unfortunately for both sides of the conflict, the child has been swapped with a boy who grows up living in a small British town, and the forces of good and evil race to find him.
Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Jack Whitehall, Miranda Richardson, Michael McKean and Mireille Enos are also in the cast, and the series arrives on Amazon Prime Video here and in the States on 31 May, with a broadcast due on BBC Two a few months later.
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