Starz
has released first look photos for their upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman's
acclaimed 2011 fantasy novel American Gods, featuring Ian McShane ("John
Wick") as Mr. Wednesday, Ricky Whittle ("The 100") as Shadow
Moon, and Pablo Schreiber ("Orange is the New Black") as Mad Sweeney at Jack's Crocodile Bar.
"It was one of
the sets that we were the most excited about and an opportunity to do a tonal
landgrab for what we are and what the style of the show will be," said showrunner Bryan Fuller. "[Jack’s] is a kind of hillbilly chic aesthetic
for Shadow’s entrée into the world of the gods."
"I think the
comedy and charm and ease of Wednesday’s appeal is very well-suited for Ian
McShane,” he said. “He has a vibrancy as Wednesday that could have gone so many
different ways in other actors’ hands, but has such a specificity and reality,
despite the situation at hand."
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 (Whittle), is an ex-con
who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday (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 Gillian Anderson, Emily Browning, Peter Stormare, Yetide
Badaki, Orlando Jones, Demore Barnes, Bruce Langley, Crispin Glover, Jonathan
Tucker, Christopher Obi, Cloris Leachman, and Mouse Kraish.
Fuller and Smallville producer
Michael Green are both attached as writers and showrunners, with David Slade
("Hannibal") directing the pilot as well as any future episodes.
Source - EW
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