The international best selling novel Neil Gaiman novel “American Gods” has been adapted by Starz and will be premiering its first episode in 2017. The idea of making this book into a series goes as far back as 2012, when Gaiman penned a pilot for HBO. Now, four years later we’re getting our first look at what all that work has been for. You can watch the trailer below.
The plot posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of 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, 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” stars Kristin Chenoweth, Ian McShane, Ricky Whittle, Pablo Schreiber, Emily Browning, Bruce Langley, Crispin Glover, Jonathan Tucker, Dane Cook, Cloris Leachman, Peter Stormare, Chris Obi, Mousa Kraish, Gillian Anderson, Orlando Jones, and Demore Barnes.
The show is written by showrunners Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal”) and Michael Green, who are also acting as executive producers. Gaiman and David Slade are also executive producers with the latter directing the pilot and supposedly other episodes.
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