{"id":1908,"date":"2011-06-11T18:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2011-06-11T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:59:37","slug":"tom-hanks-playtone-productions-announces-neil-gaimans-american-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/tom-hanks-playtone-productions-announces-neil-gaimans-american-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions Announces Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n

by Karen Chu<\/em><\/p>\n

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, Playtone partner Gary Goetzman told The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

The series-in-development, revolving around the question \u201care you a god if no one believes in you?\u201d is executive produced by Goetzman and Hanks, with Bob Richardson, and Gaiman on board as executive producer and writer.<\/p>\n

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Each of the six seasons will be of 10-12, hour-long episodes with a budget of around $35-40 million per season, targeted to debut on the cable powerhouse in 2013 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

Rich in religious folklore that spanned millennia and featuring deities from Greek and Nordic mythology, and even the Judeo-Christian monotheistic God making an appearance, in the contemporary U.S., American Gods will be effects-heavy to do justice to the awe-inspiring power of the divine beings. \u201cThere are some crazy things in there. We\u2019ll probably be doing more effects in there than it\u2019s been done on a television series,\u201d said Goetzman.<\/p>\n

via Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions Announces Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods,’ Mattel’s ‘Major Matt Mason,’ Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ (Exclusive) – The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, Playtone partner Gary Goetzman told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-uM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1484,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/playtone-setting-neil-gaimans-american-gods-for-hbo-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":1908,"position":0},"title":"Playtone Setting Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ For HBO Series","author":"AJ","date":"April 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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