Neil Gaiman Talks About the Adaptation of His Award-Winning Novel 'American Gods'
Neil Gaiman is known for many works of fiction, from his Sandman comic book series through to American Gods, which is a novel currently being adapted for Starz and in the midst of production. Deadline spoke with the successful writer on what he thinks of Bryan Fuller and Michael Green's efforts with his source material.
"I think they’re doing a remarkable job. The book itself exists almost entirely from Shadow’s point of view. So one of the first things that we’re doing is going we don’t have to make a TV series that only exists from Shadow’s point of view.
"We can watch what happens to Mad Sweeney. We can watch what happened to Laura before she died. We can watch what happened to Laura after she died. We can go off and do things with people. Stuff is happening. I think they’ve definitely taken the right approach in just how you open something like this up.
Gaiman proclaimed that he loves "getting the scripts from them. I love giving them feedback on everything, and I get to watch an McShane as Wednesday, which is astonishing."
He praises Ricky Whittle too, who plays protagonist Shadow Moon. Gaiman does describe a moment "at the end of the first episode" in which he felt Shadow was acting out of character. While he understood how well it would work, he knew that "this is not what [Shadow] would have done. They were like "Oh, OK." Incredibly nice about it."
The series is certainly one to look out for, and boasts an impressive cast to boot.
Source: Deadline
