Crispin Glover ("Back
to the Future") and Jonathan Tucker ("Kingdom") have landed sits
in the pantheon of Starz' adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
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Big Spoilers Ahead!
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Glover and Tucker are
essentially playing the same role. Tucker will play Low-Key Lyesmith, a prison
cellmate and advisor to American Gods protagonist Shadow (Ricky Whittle from "The
100"). Lyesmith is described as "a wiry and fast-talking, with an
offbeat sense of humor," and someone who "has a theory for everything
and gives Shadow some sage advice to ready him for the outside world."
To complicate things,
Lyesmith is actually Norse God Loki, who also appears in the form of Mr. World,
who Glover will play. The omniscient Mr. World is the leader of the New Gods
who is "sometime more challenged by his own subordinates than his enemies."
American Gods centers on a war brewing between old and
new gods: 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 (Ian
McShane), 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.
American Gods also stars Emily Browning ("Sucker
Punch") as Shadow's wife Laura, Sean Harris ("Mission: Impossible -
Rogue Nation") as the down on his luck leprechaun Mad Sweeney, Yetide
Badaki as love goddess Bilquis, and Bruce Langley as the petulant new god,
Technical Boy.
Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller and Smallville producer
Michael Green are attached as writers and showrunners, with David Slade
(Hannibal) directing the pilot as well as any future episodes.
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