Neil Gaiman says that AMERICAN GODS adaptation has a "Genius" director on board

Neil Gaiman shared some details about the upcoming feature adaptation of his second novel, American Gods. The rights to the film were sold just last week, but Gaiman says that a director is already lined up. He says:

There is one cinematographer and director on board who has many, many Oscars and is I think is a genius, and I love the fact that he fell in love with this about six or seven years ago and has not given up and just kept coming back and kept coming back.

I am intrigued with who the director is that's on board, and am interested to see who is announced. Who do you think the "cinematographer and director" is?

For those of you not familar with the book, head over to Gaiman’s official website:

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming — a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.

One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.

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