Good Omens on Amazon Prime, just like the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett novel, follows the story of an angel and a demon trying to prevent Armageddon on Earth. Good Omens viewers may not know is that as well as being based on the novel of the same name, the series also takes inspiration from a sequel to the book which was planned but never actually came to fruition. Neil Gaiman revealed characters like Gabriel (played by Jon Hamm) were from the Good Omens sequel - which looked at the angels and demons working with Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and Crowley (David Tennant).
Speaking to the Radio Times in 2017, Gaiman said: “Terry and I plotted a sequel to Good Omens that we never did.
“It was about where the angels actually came from.”
According to The Wrap, this sequel was to be titled 668: The Neighbour of the Beast.
But as the book was never made, elements of this sequel ended up appearing in the Amazon Prime series of Good Omens.
At the Good Omens premiere, Gaiman told Express.co.uk: “We never wrote a sequel, but we plotted a lot of stuff.
“I stole stuff from the sequel we never did and put it in this series.
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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett planned a sequel to Good Omens that was never made (Image: AMAZON PRIME)
“The angels, Jon Hamm’s character, all of that stuff... [that’s why] it all feels like it’s a part of the Good Omens world, it doesn’t feel like it’s in any way added on [or] weird.
“And that’s because it was always part of the Good Omens world. We just didn’t get it into the first novel.”
Speaking to The Wrap, Gaiman revealed his initial idea from the TV series which may also have been a part of the planned sequel.
He said: “Whenever we talked about Good Omens as a TV show, we would talk about this idea of a skyscraper with the angels at the top, and the demons at the bottom, in the offices that nobody wanted.
“Just the idea of that was our heaven and that was
