Any hype for American Gods?
>>70887462
wait, mcshane is in it? now I'm fucking interested.
>>70887499
Uh no, shitlord. That's Al Pacino.
no, none whatsoever.
The book was an atrocious mess.
>>70887462
What? Care to share any more details about it?
>>70887499
and its got Emily Browning. She dies giving a blowjob
>>70887462
perfect cast for Odin desu
>>70887462
Does Neil Gaiman still donate six figures a year to Scientology front groups while denying he's in?
Bryan Fuller's work on Hannibal was solid, but I'm concerned about some of the cast. Some good, like McShane, but the lead is best known for that "The 100" shit.
>>70887462
is this the guy from GoT ? didn't know he was in other shows
>>70887462
Neil Gaiman is Gene Wolfe for plebs.
It's going to suck, because I love the book and my standards are way too high. The book is so fucking good, I just, fuck. I'm sad because I'm gonna watch the show, and get all excited and try to show other people it, then they'll want to get away from me, cause there's gonna be a dude eaten by a vagina and a dead whore in love with this criminal who drives this god around... its just gonna be weird on screen.
They need to find a way to capture the nonchalance of the book, the subtly and with that made it all flow rationally. It's a kind of romantic pull of irony that makes it work. Like how, trying not to cry is much more emotional than crying, similarly, without explaining it verbally, they need to show, not tell, that the characters just have the boldness to adapt to this crazy shit and to drink their mead and get on with life. Shadow wants the money, so fuck it. If they can pull that initial weirdness off, the rest can follow.
>>70887695
She comes back, as a zombie, ghost, spirit, fuck Its been a long time since I read the book.
>>70888270
>Neil Gaiman
>high standards
>>70887865
No, he's the Russian ambassador from The West Wing
>>70888388
Come on now. This is by no means high-brow literature, but I think they're pretty good children's books with interesting concepts that allow for good film/tv adaptations. Shitting on Neil Gaiman because he's not Tommy Pynchon just comes off as pretentious, in the actual meaning of the word. It's okay to dislike him, but it's just as okay to enjoy his books for what they are. Nobody is pretending they're anything more.I don't even like Neil Gaiman that much
>high standards
I'm sure anon just meant high standards regarding the faithfulness of any adaptation to its source.
>>70887462
It's got a good enough cast to make me interested.
>>70887778
>Hannibal
>Dead Like Me
>Pushing up Daisies
I keep watching Fuller's shows after they are cancelled and I want at least one of them to not die before I get to see it.
Neil is a Jew asshole for fucking Mcfarlane and giving Angela to Marvel
>>70887680
(from Starz's press release, June 2015) Starz has given a greenlight to FremantleMedia North America's (FMNA) adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed contemporary fantasy novel American Gods. Bryan Fuller ("Hannibal," "Pushing Daisies," "Heroes") and Michael Green ("The River," "Kings," "Heroes"), will pen and showrun the series. Gaiman will also executive produce the series. FremantleMedia North America will produce. Start of production is dependent on casting the lead role of "Shadow Moon." The 2001 novel has been translated into over 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel. The plot posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of biblical and 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.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Bruce Langley as Technical Boy
· Chris Obi as Anubis
· Cloris Leachman as Zorya Vechernyaya
· Crispin Glover as Mr. World
· Emily Browning as Laura Moon
· Gillian Anderson as Media
· Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday
· Jonathan Tucker as Low Key Lyesmith
· Mousa Kraish as The Jinn
· Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney
· Peter Stormare as Czernobog
· Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon
· Yetide Badaki as Bilquis
all these stupid losers on the internet keep hyping it like they did game of thrones and look how shit that shit is
>>70889611
There's absolutely no way American Gods can be bad though.
>that cast
>Bryan Fuller
There will be too much muh heritage cringe desu senpai.
but who plays the cat?
this is important.
>Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney
I thought he was kinda fat and ugly/unkempt? drank lots of beer? like a classic rocker or punker or something? maybe i remember incorrectly.
Neil Gaiman is Clive Barker for plebs.
>>70889813
>Mad Sweeney
Mad Sweeney is described as having a short, red beard and mustache with "pale blue eyes." He is lanky and taller than Shadow, who has to look up at him.
http://americangods.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Sweeney
>>70887462
The book sucked.
>>70889661
>absolutely no way
don't be daft
you're posting like a 15 year old fangirl.
>>70887462
Reminder that the most definitely white protagonist andson of Odin (McShane)
is being played by pic related
>>70890090
The protagonist is suggested throughout to be mixed race
>>70890445
>>70890090
>Various characters question Shadow's race, the ambiguity of which contributes to a later revelation. Gaiman has confirmed that Shadow's mother is black. Shadow is thirty-two years old at the start of the novel. He was "big enough and looked don't-fuck-with-me enough" to keep out of trouble while in prison. Shadow's eyes are described as gray in color.
>>70887889
>>70888388
I've never read American Gods but the premise sounds similar to Wolfe's Latro in the Mist + Soldier of Sidon books, of which I've read.
>>70890090
>>70890489
>gray eyes
American Gods is for faggots.
>>70891242
So is my reply.
>>70887462
Itll be better than preacher
>>70887462
They "Hollywooded" the ending ALOT! Similar to Stardust...because Neil Gaimen is a sellout for cash.
Sauce: extra with a script. They even changed the scene where Shadow found out that his wife died giving a blowie.
...expect much rage!
>>70891213
If Wonder woman can have brown eyes instead of blue not a big deal
>>70891343
What the fuck did you just say?
>>70891405
Expect the same treatment in American Gods as Stardust got...it's also for American TV, so yeah
>>70891495
After watching neverwhere and stardust, I don't have high expectations for further adaptations of Gaiman's works.
>>70889520
I'm glad Stormare is getting work. He needs the money.
>>70887499
Fucking this.
FUCKING BROTHERHOOD WITHOUT BANNERS COCKSUCKERS WOO
>>70887462
Have the book but havnt gotten around to reading it yet.
The show seems to be pulling together a pretty good cast though. I'm hoping its good.
>>70890090
I'm ok with that. Reading the book I always pictured Shadow as Pitch-Black era Vin Diesel
>>70887462
Currently reading it. Is Nel Gaiman an author for hipsters or nerds?
Hope that Fuller brings in more Hannibal alumni, but dunno how indulgent he is in that regard.
>>70893064
If that chick from Wonderfalls doesn't get in I'll be shocked.
SHOCKED.RIP Wonderfalls man, fuck.
>>70892998
For little girls an normal people actually
>>70891567
Peter stormare is one of the richest actors in the world. He's worth hundreds of millions
>>70890090
>Shadow
>White
He's described as coffee coloured.
His mother died of Sickle cell for fuck sake.
Its never outright stated but I think its pretty clear he's half nordic god half Afro American.
>>70893064
>>70893095
I can only hope Mads Mikkelsen shows up asother Odin. but it'll probably just be McShane again so it's clearer
>>70887660
And it was his best attempt at writing.
>tried to read Gravity's Rainbow
>sixty pages in I stopped and realized I had no fucking clue as to what it was about
Don't personally get the negativity for the book, but wouldn't be averse to Fuller making changes. Would rather it's interesting than accurate.
>>70889520
>Gillain Anderson
>Ian McShane
>Stormare
>Ricky Whittle
Never read the books, but the cast has me interested.
>>70887621
FUCK. I noestly can't tell them appart.
>>70894439
What? They look nothing alike.
>>70891369
Whats with this obsession with main characters needing blue eyes? I only recently noticed it when I realized the three main characters of Ash vs the Evil Dead all had brown eyes and it stuck out to me.
>>70887621
>>70894439
>>70894595
Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday[3]
dummy
>>70887462
hyped as fuck just because Bryan Fuller
>>70893735
Cool unrelated blog, where do I subscribe?
The book was awful. Genuinely don't get the appeal.
>>70894352
Don't forget Pablo S., Crispin Glover and John Tucker. This cast is really stacked.
>>70893119
Im not sure whats bait anymore on this board
I got 1/4 way through the book and just forgot everything I had read somehow. So maybe.
How is that current Gaiman show?
>>70896141
Lucifer?
>>70889520
cloris leachman? how old is this bitch
>>70896136
he's rich as fuck, he owns a record company or something
http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/actors/peter-stormare-net-worth/
>One of the most amazing sequences for me when I was reading it was the Goddess Bilquis eating a man with her vagina! I think it’s beautifully written in the novel. What I love about how Neil’s laid out that sequence is that you’re in the gentleman caller’s point of view for his climax and the reeling of that. I mean, what is it like to cinematically deliver an orgasm to an audience that… more than likely, is not experiencing an orgasm at that moment, although you never know! Being in his point of view in the novel, he comes out of his orgasmic revelry and then he realises that he’s kind of hanging upside down, chest-deep from her. We plan to deliver that moment as it is written, because I believe that we can, and that’s very exciting for us because we were breaking that story and thinking, we are just going to lift that right out of the book and drop it right into the show. That came up in the Starz meeting, they were like, ‘how are you going to do that moment?’ and we said, ‘we’re going to do it exactly as written’.
