In the upcoming Stars adaptation of NEIL GAIMAN‘s American Gods the comedian Dane Cook is officially cast as Shadow Moon’s Best friend Robbie.
American Gods been translated into over 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel. The plot posits a war brewing between old and new gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs. Its protagonist, Shadow Moon, is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday, a conman but in reality one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.
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The Stars adaptation of American Gods stars Gillian Anderson, Cloris Leachman, Orlando Jones, Peter Stormare, and more.
The show is set to broadcast sometime in early 2017 on Stars.
Here is our first look at Bilquis who will be played by Yetide Badaki. If you are familiar with the Novel you will know her scenes should be very interesting.
SPOLIER ALERT:
One of the most amazing sequences for me when I was reading it was the Goddess Bilquis eating a man with her vagina! I think it’s beautifully written in the novel. What I love about how Neil’s laid out that sequence is that you’re in the gentleman caller’s point of view for his climax and the reeling of that. I mean, what is it like to cinematically deliver an orgasm to an audience that . . . more than likely, is not experiencing an orgasm at that moment, although you never know! Being in his point of view in the novel, he comes out of his orgasmic revelry and then he realizes that he’s kind of hanging upside down, chest-deep from her. We plan to deliver that moment as it is written, because I believe that we can, and that’s very exciting for us because we were breaking that story and thinking, we are just going to lift that right out of the book and drop it right into the show. That came up in the Starz meeting, they were like, ‘how are you going to do that moment?’ and we said, ‘we’re going to do it exactly as written’. – Stars
More Images of the upcoming show Via Entertainment Weekly.
