Details of that movie deal
It won't be news to people here that Terry Gilliam is buying the movie option for the book. The details might be, and might amuse some of you:
Terry Gilliam is getting the film rights to Good Omens-for a groat. The deal requires an actual groat, not the equivalent in other coins.
And I don't believe they've actually made groats, which is an old English coin worth about fourpence, since about the 1780s. Which means he is going to have to go to EBay.
RU [Sirius, interviewing Gaiman]: He's going to have to do some searching… a magical quest.
GAIMAN: I mean frankly they're really cheap. We figured out we were going to need Farthings to pay the agent commission on a groat. I went to EBay and picked up a farthing for practically nothing.
An eBay search found groats from Edward III through Victoria, as well as a "hammered silver half groat" of Elizabeth I, and lots of baseball cards.
Terry Gilliam is getting the film rights to Good Omens-for a groat. The deal requires an actual groat, not the equivalent in other coins.
And I don't believe they've actually made groats, which is an old English coin worth about fourpence, since about the 1780s. Which means he is going to have to go to EBay.
RU [Sirius, interviewing Gaiman]: He's going to have to do some searching… a magical quest.
GAIMAN: I mean frankly they're really cheap. We figured out we were going to need Farthings to pay the agent commission on a groat. I went to EBay and picked up a farthing for practically nothing.
An eBay search found groats from Edward III through Victoria, as well as a "hammered silver half groat" of Elizabeth I, and lots of baseball cards.