With Hannibal done, Bryan Fuller is keeping his hands
busy with two high profile series. Over at NBC, he is working on the upcoming
remake of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, while at Starz he is adapting
Neil Gaiman's popular fantasy novel, American Gods.
Speaking to Crave, Fuller reveals that the American
Gods writer's room is like no other he has ever been on because of the themes the novel
addresses.
There’s conversations in the writer’s room that we are
having on this show that I’ve never had in a writer’s room before, because
we’re actually given the ability to talk about fate and belief, and the rules
which we use to navigate society being challenged in a fashion that is not
anti-religion, but not necessarily letting religion off the hook entirely…So
it’s very important to us in the show to not be making fun of anybody for their
religious beliefs because we all have some sort of belief-like thing in our
brain that could arguably be delusional, whether it’s ghosts or gods or
whatever superstition, black cats, walking under ladders, et cetera.
Gaiman's novel primarily focuses on minor and forgotten
gods and many other mythological beings. However, according to Fuller they
won't stop there.
Oh yeah, we get into Jesus and the big God as well.
You know, so much of the book is exploring the more marginalized gods who are
struggling to make their way in modern America without the strength of the
believers that, say, Jesus and Buddha and Easter might have because of their
public personas.
As for the overall plan for the series, Fuller says
that they are looking at Marvel for inspiration, and that depending on the
success of the show we could be looking at spinoffs.
[W]hat we’re looking at with American Gods is
developing a Marvel Universe, not with superheroes but with gods. As detailed
and integrated as the Marvel Universe is, and doing that with deities is
something that excited all of us…In success we may have spin-offs of American
Gods that follow lesser gods in greater detail than you might in the main
series, but there’s all sorts of potential for this show that we’re very
excited about and I hope the audience is as enthusiastic as we are so we can
bring those dreams to fruition.
American Gods will premiere in 2017.
Source - Crave
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