I just remember thinking: wouldn’t it be wonderful if the people who lived there had been there for the last thousand years?”
But in my mind, that meant that it was about 1,000 years old.
I was told that it had been in the Doomsday Book. “I was nine years old and there was an old farm down our road. “Earlier than anything else, it started with me making up the Hempstock family,” says Gaiman. In Ocean at the End of the Lane, Gaiman’s 2013 novel – and later, a much-admired West End theatre production – the warm-hearted Lettie Hempstock befriends the narrator and casts spells to protect him when a dark magical force is unleashed in his village. Liza Hempstock is a friendly witch in The Graveyard Book. By nine, swayed by his surroundings and the enduring influence of CS Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, he conceived of the Hempstocks, a fictional family who have variously graced his fiction.ĭaisy Hempstock turned up in 1999′s Stardust as the stepmother of the hero (later played by Charlie Cox in the 2007 film adaptation). During the summer break, his parents would drop him off at the local library with a packed lunch so that he could spend all day in the children’s section. When Gaiman was five, his family moved to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the local Scientology centre.Īn avid reader, by seven he had alphabetised all of the books on his bookshelf.
Where good adaptations are concerned, a lot of my job is encouraging people to relax and to focus on whatever it is that they loved about whatever work of mine that they’re adapting. That’ll hopefully be coming out next year. Like Randall and Hopkirk, if they were schoolkids solving crimes. I’ve been getting to watch Dead Boy Detective, which nobody else has got to see yet. I thought it pulled out of its death dive just toward the end, but it was too late at that point. This thing that could have been beautiful just crashed and burned. I was watching American Gods from across the Atlantic. “I was making Good Omens at the time which was my adaptation of my thing.
“There were people problems in the background and arguments behind the scenes,” says Gaiman. By the end of season two, Jessie Alexander, the replacement showrunner, was replaced. The Writers Guild intervened to ensure credits and compensation for that work. Disputes in the writers’ room meant that some actors had to write their own lines. Cast members Gillian Anderson and Kristin Chenoweth promptly left the show. Debuting in 2017, the TV adaptation of Gaiman’s Hugo and Nebula-winning 2001 novel pitched old gods against new gods in a starry package from showrunners Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Michael Green (screenwriter for Logan and Bladerunner 2049).īoth were fired ahead of the second season.
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