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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — American Gods
Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(January 03, 2017 01:47 PM)
We're inching ever closer to a premiere, so I figure a few bits of info about the show for any newcomers couldn't hurt.
What is the show about?
From Wikipedia: The series will focus on the mysterious Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison for assault. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after his beloved wife Laura is killed in a car accident. Flying home for the funeral, Shadow is seated next to a man calling himself Wednesday, who offers Shadow a job he seems all too confident that Shadow will accept. Arriving home, Shadow finds that the life he thought was waiting for him is gone. With no other options, he accepts Wednesday's offer. At first, it appears that Wednesday is nothing but a con artist who runs scams for cash and needs Shadow as a collaborator and bodyguard. Shadow soon learns that Wednesday is in fact
the god Odin of Norse mythology
. Wednesday is making his way across America, gathering all the old gods, who, without believers, have now incorporated themselves into American life and pretend to be ordinary people, while the New Gods Media, Technology, and a host of others grow ever stronger. Shadow finds himself drawn into a final confrontation between the old gods and the new.
Is it based on a book?
Yes, by Neil Gaiman.
Who is in it?
The cast so far:
Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon
Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday
Emily Browning as Laura Moon
Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney
Yetide Badaki as Bilquis
Bruce Langley as Technical Boy
Jonathan Tucker as Low Key Lyesmith
Crispin Glover as Mr. World
Cloris Leachman as Zorya Vechernyaya
Peter Stormare as Czernobog
Chris Obi as Mr. Jacquel
Mousa Kraish as the Jinn
Gillian Anderson as Media
Omid Abtahi as Salim
Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy
Demore Barnes as Mr. Ibis
Dane Cook as Robbie
Kristin Chenoweth as Easter
Corbin Bernsen as Vulcan (a new character created by Gaiman specifically for the series and described as having "bound himself to guns")
Jeremy Davies as Jesus
Beth Grant as Jack
When is it due to premiere?
April 2017
Trailer:
More Info to Come.
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