{"id":1484,"date":"2011-04-19T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2011-04-19T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T01:30:17","slug":"playtone-setting-neil-gaimans-american-gods-for-hbo-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/playtone-setting-neil-gaimans-american-gods-for-hbo-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Playtone Setting Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ For HBO Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

As HBO prepares to unveil its epic-sized series adaptation of George RR Martin’sGame of Thrones<\/em> this Sunday, the payweb has begun talks to acquire the Neil Gaiman novel\u00a0American Gods<\/em> to be developed into another fantasy series. The project was brought to HBO by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and it was brought to them by Robert Richardson. The plan is for Richardson and Gaiman to write the pilot together.<\/p>\n

Richardson is the renowned cinematographer who just completed\u00a0Hugo Cabret<\/em> and whose recent credits include\u00a0Shutter Island,<\/em> Inglourious Basterds<\/em>and Kill Bill<\/em>. He is a regular collaborator with directors that include Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone and has won Oscars for The Aviator<\/em> and JFK. <\/em>It is his first significant scripting effort. He’ll do it in collaboration with Gaiman, a fanboy god for works like The Sandman<\/em>, whose script work includes\u00a0Beowulf.<\/em> His novels\u00a0Stardust <\/em>and\u00a0Coraline<\/em> have been turned into films, and Neil Jordan is directing an adaption of Gaiman’s\u00a0The Graveyard Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n

American Gods<\/em>, the 2002 book that won both the Stoker and Hugo Award among other prizes, lays out a battle between two sets of gods. One consists of the traditional gods and mythological creatures who got their power because people throughout history believed in them. They are losing steam as people’s beliefs wane and are in danger of being supplanted by a new set of gods who\u00a0 reflect America’s preoccupation with technological advancements and obsessions with media, celebrity, technology and drugs. The protagonist is an ex-con who becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities.<\/p>\n

Playtone just completed its run of the HBO series\u00a0Big Love<\/em>, and generated the miniseries\u00a0The Pacific, John Adams, Band of Brothers<\/em> and\u00a0From The Earth To The Moon<\/em> for the network.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Deadline As HBO prepares to unveil its epic-sized series adaptation of George RR Martin’sGame of Thrones this Sunday, the payweb has begun talks to acquire the Neil Gaiman novel\u00a0American Gods to be developed into another fantasy series. The project was brought to HBO by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and it […]<\/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-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-nW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1908,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/tom-hanks-playtone-productions-announces-neil-gaimans-american-gods\/","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":0},"title":"Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions Announces Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"June 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter by Karen Chu SINGAPORE \u2013 Tom Hanks\u2019 Playtone Productions is set to produce a six-season, open-ended series, American Gods, for HBO, based on Neil Gaiman\u2019s award-winning novel, while the company\u2019s next project, Major Matt Mason, is in talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct in 3D,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11552,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/starz-greenlights-neil-gaimans-american-gods-television-series-nerdist\/","url_meta":{"origin":1484,"position":1},"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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