British actor David Morrissey has joined the cast of the in-production Good Omens for Amazon Prime Video. Morrissey will play Captain Vincent, the captain of the Morbillo, a cruise ship which encounters the sunken city of Atlantis in the series, which will launch globally on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories in 2019 including in the UK, where it will also air on BBC Two at a later date.
The news of Morrissey’s casting was announced on social media late yesterday by executive producer Neil Gaiman and director Douglas Mackinnon.
Look who is next to join the cast of #GoodOmens ! The magnificent David Morrissey as Captain Vincent, who encounters Atlantis… ?@neilhimself? pic.twitter.com/d1iclXe1D2
— Douglas Mackinnon (@drmuig) June 21, 2018
Based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the six-part series for Prime Video boasts an already impressive cast. In addition to leads, Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) and David Tennant (Doctor Who), the cast includes Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as the Archangel Gabriel, Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow) as Madame Tracy, Michael McKean (This is Spinal Tap) as Shadwell, Jack Whitehall (Bad Education) as Newt, Adria Arjona (True Detective) as Anathema Device, and Anna Maxwell Martin (Becoming Jane) as Beelzebub. Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentleman), Derek Jacobi (Gladiator), Daniel Mays (Ashes to Ashes), Sian Brooke (Sherlock) and Mireille Enos (World War Z) also join the star-studded line-up.
Here’s the synopsis from the source material.
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – the world’s only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded – the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea…
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons – well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel – would quite like the Rapture not to happen.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…
More as it comes our way.
