Neil Gaiman’s American Gods being developed as a Starz series
After nearly three years of development at HBO ended in stalemate, most assumed that American Gods had simply gone the way of other complicated Neil Gaiman adaptations. But in a world where Sandman finally gets a green light for a movie, Gaiman’s other popular fantasy about the interplay between man and mythological creatures is now getting another chance at Starz. On the back of the project being picked up by Fremantle Media (producers of the upcoming remake of The Returned), Starz has partnered with Fremantle and executive producers Gaiman, Bryan Fuller, and Michael Green to develop a series based on the 2001 novel about Old World gods struggling to exist in the modern era—a time when their powers have waned thanks to being supplanted by newer deities with greater charisma, such as the acne-ridden teenager who rules the Internet.