The adaptation of Neil
Gaiman's Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, Locus, and Hugo award winning novel American
Gods has finally been greenlited by Starz, with Heroes' Michael Green and
Hannibal's Bryan Fuller as showrunners, and Gaiman himself as an executive
producer.
"I am thrilled, scared, delighted, nervous
and a ball of glorious anticipation. The team that is going to bring the world
of American Gods to the screen has been assembled like the master
criminals in a caper movie: I’m relieved and confident that my baby is in good
hands. Now we finally move to the exciting business that fans have been doing
for the last dozen years: casting our Shadow, our Wednesday, our Laura…"
said Gaiman of the series, which sees a war between old and new gods brewing. The
traditional gods of biblical and mythological roots from around the
world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon
of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology,
media, celebrity and drugs. Its protagonist, Shadow
Moon, is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling
partner to Mr. Wednesday, a conman
but in reality one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to
gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.
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