Were the four lesser horsemen of the apocalypse ever in the plans for the tv show or were they cut early on in the process?
They were in the script. They were even cast. (There were some fantastic auditions.) But when we were a few days before the read through we needed to save a week’s shooting, and the Other Four Horsemen would have been long and arduous and expensive to shoot and, reluctantly, I let them go.
Honestly I was very disappointed by the lack of the four lesser horsemen of the apocalypse but this situation¹ makes for too perfectly Good Omens-y of a joke, for me to truly be angry about it.
¹ there were originally eight Horsemen, but the other four were unfortunately cut, due to budgetary issues