AMERICAN GODS: Check Out The Starz Show's First Poster and a New Photo
Starz is bringing Neil Gaiman's American Gods to the small screen, and tons of photos and casting news have been rolling in over the past few months. EW has the latest pic, which features Ricky Whittle's Shadow Moon caressing his wife Laura, played by Sucker Punch star Emily Browning. In Gaiman's book, Laura dies very early on just as Shadow gets out of prison, but her death isn't the end of the character — she comes back to speak with Shadow as sort of an undead, decaying version of herself, and from the looks of that scar on her chest, it looks like the show is going to stick pretty close to the source material in that department.
For those who have no idea what American Gods is, here's the network's official description:
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.
Here's a brief quote from the guys running the new series:
“It was fun to take what Neil had created for Laura in the book and imagine her point of view from the scenario that she was in now. One of my favorite times collaboratively on this is when Michael and I were first talking about crafting and expanding Laura’s story, because it felt like we had been handed the baton of her character and could run,” says [executive producer Bryan] Fuller. “She’s always been a source of joy with this show because [executive producer Michael [Green] and I are so in sync with who she is and what she should be and what we can say through her. And the really magical thing was sitting down with Emily and hearing her perspective because I think she gave us permission to go places that we had tested but were cautious about in our approach.”
Additionally, Starz released the first poster for the show in anticipation of their Comic-Con panel tomorrow afternoon. Check that out below. American Gods will premiere sometime in 2017.