Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS TV Series Has Been Given The Green Light By Starz

Neil Gaiman's AMERICAN GODS TV Series Has Been Given The Green Light By Starz

The television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods gained new life at Starz. Now the premium cable network have given the series the green light, with Hannibal's Bryan Fuller set to write/produce.

By Minty - Jun 16, 2015 01:06 PM EST
Filed Under: American Gods

It feels like it's taken an age to get to this point, but the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's popular fantasy novel American Gods has finally been greenlit. The project has been in the works for some time now, and, at one point, looked like it was headed to HBO. However, after spending several years stuck in 'development hell', the series shifted hands to rival premium cable channel Starz.

The network have now confirmed that the show will indeed be going ahead, with Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Michael Green (Kings) handling showrunning duties. According to a press release issued by Freemantle Media earlier today, Gaiman will also be involved as an executive producer. The writer expressed his excitement about the news in a short statement:


"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..."



This is just the first step in a long journey towards an official series pick-up. However, fans who have watched this project loiter in development over the past few years can take solace from the news that it is now picking up steam. Next up for the producers is the casting of the novel's protagonist, 'Shadow Moon' - and it seems both Gaiman and Starz would love to hear some of your suggestions:



Are you excited by these new developments? Would you have preferred to see American Gods as a HBO mini-series - or are you just happy to finally get the chance to witness Gaiman's popular novel on the small screen? Who would you like to see get the nod to play Shadow? Sign off with your thoughts and choices in the comments below!

American Gods tells the story of Shadow, who, in his last days of prison, learns that his wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

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GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/16/2015, 12:27 PM
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 12:28 PM
Never read it. Is it worth checking out?
Deschain99
Deschain99 - 6/16/2015, 1:18 PM
I'm echoing blackandyellow . .Is it?
DrKinsolving
DrKinsolving - 6/16/2015, 1:19 PM
Nice!!!! That's awesome
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 6/16/2015, 1:23 PM
I've never read this, but I'm a big fan of Neil Gaiman's work. Congrats to him.
MrAisA
MrAisA - 6/16/2015, 1:26 PM
American Gods = Sandman + Preacher - pictures, i.e. it's great.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 6/16/2015, 1:29 PM
@TheAmbassador

LMAO!!!!! That ending was hilarious!
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 1:30 PM
@nomis

Cool. Sounds like an interesting premise ... even if Neil Gaiman is a poor man's Paul Levitz :)
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 1:31 PM
@nomis

LMAO I just like telling you he's better than Chris Claremont! I've never met him, but I went on a LSH binge a while ago and it stuck with me. How he handled a roster of 25 superheroes plus supporting characters and villains was masterful.
McGee
McGee - 6/16/2015, 1:32 PM
Yes...America does have more than one God.


Here are two of them!

McGee
McGee - 6/16/2015, 1:34 PM
Pathogen
Pathogen - 6/16/2015, 1:38 PM
nice! Good book!
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 1:40 PM
@McGee

Do you think you could sneak into the Scientology center near you and take some pics for us? Don't be a pussy about it.
JoeMomma29
JoeMomma29 - 6/16/2015, 1:42 PM
@blackandyellow

LMAO! McGee actually scare the folks over at the Scientology center!
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 1:45 PM
LMAO joe. He was probably the first person ever asked to leave for being too zealous about Scientology.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 1:48 PM
Omega, how does this news make your soul feel?

blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 1:59 PM
@Nomis

That's awesome. You should've had him autograph that rejection letter when you met him.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 6/16/2015, 2:02 PM
Bryan Fuller is involved? And it's an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's work?! This is a must watch for me.
case
case - 6/16/2015, 2:15 PM
I just finished reading this about a month ago. I stole it from work. I pictured it working as a movie, with a hell of a lot of distilling but didn't really consider it as a show. I guess coz Shadow's character arc moves so slowly...

Anthony Hopkins would be a good nod for Wednesday but I reckon Alan Arkin would nail the old bugger.

@b&y @deschain99
It's worth it. It took a long while for me to really get what it was getting at, and then it turns out its actually a pretty simple and really satisfying story. I liked it.
case
case - 6/16/2015, 2:18 PM
@nomis - bullshit!! Pics or it didn't happen!
preacher
preacher - 6/16/2015, 2:25 PM
I pictured Jason Mamoa as Shadow and @case, I too pictured Anthony Hopkins, but, since he's already played that character in another movie (didn't want to say who Wednesday REALLY is for those who haven't read it)Brian Cox is the other actor I came up with for that role.
warburtron
warburtron - 6/16/2015, 2:36 PM
good book and hannibal is one of my faveys too,yay
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 6/16/2015, 3:45 PM
@case

Cool. I'll check it out sometime before the show. I'm still working my way through Preacher.
DalekEmperor
DalekEmperor - 6/16/2015, 4:03 PM
This is one of my favorite books. Bryan Fuller is a great showrunner and he will do this justice.
Talontd
Talontd - 6/16/2015, 4:17 PM
From Bryan Fuller himself:

"In our conversations about who our ideals are for specific roles, Shadow is described as… is he a gypsy? Is he Hispanic? Is he black? Or is he all of those things in one? So we know that he is not white! I think if we cast a white man to play Shadow we would be the biggest assholes on television."


Shadow should not, and will not be white. The best people I can think of are all movie actors...



Kyos
Kyos - 6/16/2015, 4:50 PM
That's good news! :)
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