Highly-Anticipated Fantasy Drama American Gods to Launch Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2017
August 24, 2016
Neil Gaiman’s tale of mythological gods, starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning., Kristin Chenoweth and Gillian Anderson, will launch on Prime Video in Germany, Austria, UK and Japan next year
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London, Wednesday 24th August 2016 – Amazon today announced that fantasy drama American Gods will launch exclusively for Prime members in Germany, Austria, UK and Japan in 2017. The drama is based on the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Good Omens, Coraline), which has been translated into over 30 languages. Starring Ricky Whittle (The 100, Austenland) as protagonist ex-con Shadow Moon, Ian McShane (Deadwood, Pirates of the Caribbean) as Mr. Wednesday who enlists Shadow Moon as part of his cross-country mission, and Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, Legend) as Shadow’s wife, Laura Moon, American Gods also features Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) as Media, the mouthpiece for the New Gods. Joining Whittle, McShane, Browning and Anderson are Pablo Schreiber (13 Hours, Orange Is the New Black) as Mad Sweeney, Yetide Badaki (Aquarius, Masters of Sex) as Bilquis and a strong supporting cast including, recently announced, Kristin Chenoweth, as Easter. The drama uncovers a power struggle between the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world and an upstart pantheon of gods whose behavior reflects society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.
“Adapted from Neil Gaiman’s beloved novel, American Gods is one of the most ambitious new television series coming out in 2017,” says Brad Beale, Vice President of Worldwide Television Acquisition for Amazon. “It joins our roster of exciting, high-quality Original and exclusive shows for our Prime members including, this year, the highly anticipated The Grand Tour, Mr. Robot, Preacher, Lucifer and the return of The Man in the High Castle.”
American Gods is produced by FremantleMedia North America. Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, Heroes) and Michael Green (The River, Kings, Heroes) are writers and showrunners. David Slade (Hannibal, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) is directing the pilot and additional episodes. FMNA’s Craig Cegielski and Stefanie Berk are executive producing the series along with Fuller, Green, Slade and Neil Gaiman. FremantleMedia International is distributing the series worldwide.
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