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Starz ‘American Gods’ Adaptation Has Cast Its Shadow Moon!

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: Aside from Starz original announcement that the network was adapting Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, which was revealed all the way back in the Summer of 2014, we haven’t really heard much from the camp of the incredibly anticipated series.

Until today, that is, when Starz finally announced the actor who will portray Shadow Moon.

It’s Ricky Whittle, who you’ll probably recognize as Lincoln from The CW’s hit series The 100. 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.’

American Gods author Neil Gaiman noted that “I’m thrilled that Ricky has been cast as Shadow. His auditions were remarkable. The process of taking a world out of the pages of a book, and putting it onto the screen has begun. American Gods is, at its heart, a book about immigrants, and it seems perfectly appropriate that Shadow will, like so much else, be Coming to America. I’m delighted Ricky will get to embody Shadow. Now the fun starts.”

Showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green added that “We searched every continent and country and all the islands in between for our Shadow Moon, and we are lucky to have found Ricky.  Fans of the novel will find he has every bit of the heart of the character they fell in love with.”

The series ‘posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of 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.’

So, American Gods fans. Are you happy with Whittle in the role? Would you have preferred to see another actor? Be sure to let us know in the comments below!

NBC Cancels ‘Hannibal’

by Shane O'Hare

The Peacock is putting the breaks on the acclaimed drama Hannibal.

 

NBC had this to say

We have been tremendously proud of Hannibal over its three seasons,” NBC said in a statement. Bryan Fuller and his team of writers and producers, as well as our incredible actors, have brought a visual palette of storytelling that has been second to none in all of television — broadcast or cable. We thank Gaumont and everyone involved in the show for their tireless efforts that have made Hannibal an incredible experience for audiences around the world.

Showrunner Bryan Fuller released his own statement today

NBC has allowed us to craft a television series that no other broadcast network would have dared, and kept us on the air for three seasons despite Cancellation Bear Chow ratings and images that would have shredded the eyeballs of lesser Standards & Practices enforcers. Jen Salke and her team have been fantastic partners and creatively supportive beyond measure. Hannibal is finishing his last course at NBC’s table this summer, but a hungry cannibal can always dine again. And personally, I look forward to my next meal with NBC.

NBC does plan to continue with the release of the remaining 10 episodes, and they will be released at the normal time of 10 PM on Thursdays.

 

Breaking News: “American Gods” Coming to Starz

by S.J. Borger

Starz announced that it will be bringing Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed urban fantasy “American Gods” to television.

“American Gods” follows Shadow Moon, an ex-con who is recruited by conman and old god,  Mr. Wednesday,  to be his bodyguard and traveling companion. The two are quickly embroiled in a desperate mission to create an alliance of old gods to fight the newer, upstart deities that reflect modern society’s love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs. The 2001 novel has been translated into over 30 languages and won Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker awards for Best Novel.

Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, Heroes) and Michael Green (The River, Kings, Heroes) are currently working on the pilot and will be both executive producers and showrunners for the show, which will be produced by Freemantle Media.

Fuller commented: “Neil Gaiman has created the holiest of holy toy boxes with ‘American Gods’ and filled it with all manner of magical things, born of new gods and old. Michael Green and I are thrilled to crack this toy box wide open and unleash the fantastical titans of heaven and earth and Neil’s vividly prolific imagination.”

Neil Gaiman, author of “American Gods”

HBO was working on an adaptation of “American Gods,” picking up the rights in 2011, but announced just in November 2013 that they had let the property go. 

“When you create something like ‘American Gods,’ which attracts fans and obsessives and people who tattoo quotes from it on themselves or each other, and who all, tattooed or not, just care about it deeply, it’s really important to pick your team carefully,” said author Neil Gaiman, “You don’t want to let the fans down, or the people who care and have been casting it online since the dawn of recorded history. What I love most about the team who I trust to take it out to the world, is that they are the same kind of fanatics that ’American Gods’ has attracted since the start. I haven’t actually checked Bryan Fuller or Michael Green for quote tattoos, but I would not be surprised if they have them. The people at Fremantle are the kinds of people who have copies of ‘American Gods in the bottom of their backpacks after going around the world, and who press them on their friends. And the team at Starz have been quite certain that they wanted to give Shadow, Wednesday and Laura a home since they first heard that the book was out there.I can’t wait to see what they do to bring the story to the widest possible audience able to cope with it”

No news on when to expect American Gods, nor is there any information on what we’re all dying to know (who will play Shadow???) but keep checking back here for more updates.

First Official Images From ‘Mockingbird Lane’

by Shawn Madden

Are you one of the many curious to see Bryain Singer and Brian Fuller’s Mocking Bird Lane, a modern remake of The Munsters?  Mockingbird Lane. Well, on Friday, Oct. 26 you’ll have your chance when NBC airs the pilot as a Halloween special. We also have a gallery of official images from the pilot to check out.

The pilot, written by Bryan Fuller and to be directed by Bryan Singer, is described as a reinvention of the 1960s sitcom about The Munsters, a family of “monsters” — vampires, werewolves and Frankenstein, and their “plain” cousin (Charity Wakefield) — that will feature striking visuals in the vein of Fuller’s ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies. O’Connell will play family patriarch, the handsome and gangly Herman Munster, a great dad and devoted husband. He is married to Lily, a vampire, with whom he has fathered a 10-year-old boy, Eddie (Mason Cook). Strong but sentimental, Herman works at a funeral home, and worries that Eddie’s transformation into a werewolf and burgeoning awareness of his family’s origins will crush the boy’s spirit.

Source: TV Line

Cast Photo From ‘Mockingbird Lane’ Gives Us First Look At The Munsters!

by Shawn Madden

So, if you haven’t heard by now they’re remaking The Munsters but taking a less-comedy, more drama approach to it. The pilot, written by Bryan Fuller and to be directed by Bryan Singer, is described as:

A reinvention of the 1960s sitcom about The Munsters, a family of “monsters” — vampires, werewolves and Frankenstein, and their “plain” cousin (Charity Wakefield) — that will feature striking visuals in the vein of Fuller’s ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies. O’Connell will play family patriarch, the handsome and gangly Herman Munster, a great dad and devoted husband. He is married to Lily, a vampire, with whom he has fathered a 10-year-old boy, Eddie (Mason Cook). Strong but sentimental, Herman works at a funeral home, and worries that Eddie’s transformation into a werewolf and burgeoning awareness of his family’s origins will crush the boy’s spirit.

Take your first look at the cast as The Munsters!

From left to right: Charity Wakefield, Eddie Izzard, Mason Cook, Portia de Rossi, and Jerry O’Connell.

The show is said to have a much darker and serious tone. As described by Fuller:

“The Munsters actually do what monsters do. They eat people and they have to live with the ramifications of being monstrous. It’s like grounding it in a reality because the half-hour was a sitcom, we saw the monsters: they were monsters on the outside and weren’t monsters on the inside. For us, they’re monsters outside and inside, and we get to double our story.”

“Everything is a metaphor for something that you can identify with in a relationship. The fact that Herman is in a constant state of decay and he’s married to someone who doesn’t age. We get to play with all those insecurities. The fact that he was made by his father-in-law and then has to live up to those standards; he’s always trying to find his own identity.”

Source: JoBlo