{"id":1343,"date":"2011-03-28T21:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2011-03-28T21:14:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:14:40","slug":"neil-gaiman-confirms-american-gods-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/neil-gaiman-confirms-american-gods-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman confirms ‘American Gods’ film"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DigitalSpy<\/a><\/p>\n

Neil Gaiman has revealed that a film adaptation of his book\u00a0American Gods<\/em> is in the works.<\/p>\n

The novel, first published in 2001, takes place in a world in which gods and mythological creatures exist.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, Gaiman exclusively revealed to\u00a0DS<\/strong> that a director “who has many, many Oscars” is already on board the project.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to be having a meeting in LA with the people that the film rights have been sold to,” he confirmed. “I’m going to be… talking to them, find out where they’re going and if there’s any way that I can help.”<\/p>\n

He also described the unnamed director attached to the film as “a genius”.<\/p>\n

“He fell in love with this [novel] about six or seven years ago and has not given up,” explained the writer.<\/p>\n

Watch Neil Gaiman discuss the upcoming\u00a0American Gods<\/em> film in full below.
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From DigitalSpy Neil Gaiman has revealed that a film adaptation of his book\u00a0American Gods is in the works. The novel, first published in 2001, takes place in a world in which gods and mythological creatures exist. In a recent interview, Gaiman exclusively revealed to\u00a0DS that a director “who has many, many Oscars” is already on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-lF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11552,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/starz-greenlights-neil-gaimans-american-gods-television-series-nerdist\/","url_meta":{"origin":1343,"position":0},"title":"Starz Greenlights Neil Gaiman\u2019s AMERICAN GODS Television Series","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"June 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Neil Gaiman\u2019s 2001 novel American Gods has long been in development on cable television, first for several years at HBO, before moving on to development hell over the last few years at Starz. 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