Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' TV Adaptation Coming to Starz
The Starz network is bringing Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" to TV, according to reports. "American Gods" is one of Gaiman's best-selling and award-winning novels, which was originally published in 2001.
Bryan Fuller and Michael Green are spearheading the adaptation of the novel into a TV series. According to the report, they will also serve as the show's executive producers and showrunners, while Gaiman will also sit as an executive producer for FremantleMedia North America. Fuller is known for his work in the "Hannibal" series, while Green is known for his work in "Heroes."
Neil Gaiman expressed his delight with this new development.
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"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," he said.
The novel which was originally considered to be "unfilmable" because of its elaborate story, features a character called Shadow Moon, an ex-convict who is widowed and takes on a bodyguard job for a conman named Wednesday. As it turns out, Wednesday is an incarnation of Odin, the Norse god of knowledge and wisdom, who is seeking incarnations of other gods and get them to join him and wage war on the "New American Gods" who are in fact "manifestations of modern life and technology."
The novel's premise is that the old ancient gods are present in the real world and their power waned when their number of believers waned.
According to a report in Variety, production on the series will start as soon as they have cast the main characters of the series – Shadow, Wednesday and Laura, Shadow's wife.
