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Playtone, the company headed by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (whose last effort was the Emmy-nominated War series “The Pacific”), are producing a television series of author Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”.
Deadline says Cinematographer Robert Richardson (“Hugo Cabret”), who brought the project to Hanks and Goetzman’s attention, and Gaiman, who also wrote “Stardust” and “Coraline”, will write the screenplay for the series together.
Here’s the book description : “After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the storm is about to break.Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman’s epic novel sees him on the road to the heart of America”
Sounds fun!
