Exciting news!! @neilhimself to write adaptation of Good Omens, @rhipratchett to adapt The Wee Free Men, Mort by Shrek’s Terry Rossio
— SFX magazine (@SFXmagazine) April 14, 2016
That being Neil Gaiman and Rhianna Pratchett (yup, Terry Pratchett’s daughter), respectively. I’m calling it a ‘rumor’ because I’m not seeing this reported anywhere else, but the first two at least make sense: Neil Gaiman co-authored Good Omens and Rhianna Pratchett is herself a scriptwriter*. So we’ll see
Moe Lane
*I imagine that having that last name can be a burden in this field, though.
And Terry Rossio is a scriptwriter who understands and cares about good science fiction. I highly recommend his essay about the epic battle against The Studio Suits to bring an adaptation of Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters to the screen:
http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/rossio.html