Starz Offers First Look At American Gods

Fuller’s Gaiman Adaptation Previewed at SDCC

♦Yesterday at SDCC, Starz showed a first look at Bryan Fuller’s TV version of Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods, a TV series starting next year…

Here’s what wikipedia has to say about the show:

American Gods is an upcoming television series created by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green for Starz, based on the novel of the same name by author Neil Gaiman. Fuller and Green will script the first episode and serve as showrunners. Gaiman will executive produce along with Fuller, Green, Craig Cegielski, Stefanie Berk and Thom Beers.

The series will focus on the mysterious Shadow, a man who is released from prison a few days early after serving a three-year sentence for bank robbery when his beloved wife Laura is killed in a car accident. Flying home for the funeral, Shadow is seated next to a man who introduces himself only as Mr. Wednesday, and this man knows more about Shadow’s life, both past and present, than is possible. Shadow comes to learn that Wednesday is, in fact, the god Odin of Norse mythology and that all of the gods that mankind has ever believed in are alive in human form and live among regular people. Shadow is soon thrust into a gathering conflict between the Old gods and the so-called “New gods,” the gods of money and technology who believe there is no longer room on Earth for the old gods.

The first season is set to adapt the first third of the original novel, with Lakeside set to appear as the main setting for the potential second season, and Wednesday’s death as the second or third season’s finale.

The cast includes Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon, Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday, Emily Browning as Laura Moon, Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney, Yetide Badaki as Bilquis, Bruce Langley as Technical Boy, Jonathan Tucker as Low Key Lyesmith, Crispin Glover as Mr. World, Cloris Leachman as Zorya Vechernyaya and Peter Stormare as Czernobog.