{"id":76845,"date":"2015-06-17T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=76845"},"modified":"2015-06-17T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:36:48","slug":"neil-gaimans-american-gods-officially-getting-a-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/neil-gaimans-american-gods-officially-getting-a-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman&#8217;s American Gods officially getting a TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_76857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76857\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/neil-gaiman-bryan-fuller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-76857 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/neil-gaiman-bryan-fuller-616x352.jpg\" alt=\"neil gaiman bryan fuller american gods\" width=\"616\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/neil-gaiman-bryan-fuller-616x352.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/neil-gaiman-bryan-fuller-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/neil-gaiman-bryan-fuller-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/neil-gaiman-bryan-fuller.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Gaiman and showrunner Bryan Fuller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>So many bundles of good news right now: Neil Gaiman&#x2019;s acclaimed novel <em><strong>American Gods<\/strong><\/em> has been in talks to be adapted into a TV series for a while now, but the talks are finally over!<\/p>\n<p>US channel Starz has officially picked <em><strong>American Gods<\/strong><\/em> up for a full series and, as if this news couldn&#x2019;t get any better, Bryan Fuller (<em><strong>Hannibal<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Pushing Daisies<\/strong><\/em>) and Michael Green (<em><strong>Heroes<\/strong><\/em>) will be acting as writers, showrunners and executive producers. Gaiman is set to join them as an executive producer with FremantleMedia North America.<\/p>\n<p>Series production is due to start as soon as the producers find a their leading man to play the role of Shadow Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Gaiman said of the news: &#x201C;I am thrilled, &#x200E;scared, delighted, nervous and a ball of glorious anticipation. The team that is going to bring the world of <em><strong>American Gods<\/strong><\/em> to the screen has been assembled like the master criminals in a caper movie: I&#x2019;m relieved and confident that my baby is in good hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;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.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>According to Variety, Starz are hoping to get fans involved with the casting process, using the hashtag #CastingShadow in an attempt to both promote the show and find out who fans would like to see as the lead character.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Fuller and Green said: &#x201C;Almost 15 years ago, Neil Gaiman filled a toy box with gods and magic, and we are thrilled to finally crack it open and play. We&#x2019;re grateful to have Starz above us and FremantleMedia at our backs as we appease the gods, American or otherwise.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can buy <em>American Gods<\/em> by Neil Gaiman in paperback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/American-Gods-Neil-Gaiman\/dp\/0755322819\">for &#xA3;6.29 from Amazon.co.uk. <\/a>Get all the latest fantasy news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3628\/s\/scifinow-issue-107\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&utm_medium=cover&utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.&#xA0;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Gods is getting a full series with awesome showrunners and we&#8217;re excited <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":76856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[1983],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/american-gods-140312.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}