Neil Gaiman revives Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, talks American Gods, is everywhere
By Dan Selcke
Writer and nerd god Neil Gaiman is everywhere these days. There are two big shows based on his work on the horizon, and another that has nothing to do with him he’s taken it upon himself to revive.
First up, the second season of American Gods kicks off on March 10. Speaking to Collider, Gaiman and the cast members talk about the coming battle between the old gods and the new, and the zany set pieces we can expect:
Hot on the heels of American Gods, Amazon is going to air a miniseries adaptation of Good Omens, the comic fantasy Gaiman wrote with fellow legend Terry Pratchett back in 1990. Pratchett died in 2015, and Gaiman was determined to carry out his last wish. “I didn’t in any real sense of the word have two years of my life to give up to make this, so I wouldn’t have done it if Terry hadn’t died and given me this as his last request,” Gaiman told Variety. “Terry’s wish trumped everything, so we were making it for him…[T]he very last thing that happens on the final screen of episode six is just for Terry.”
Fans of Good Omens shouldn’t expect a beat-by-beat recreation. When writing the six-episode series, Gaiman used some elements he and Pratchett had been saving for a sequel. “[T]he fact that we have Jon Hamm as the impossibly irritating angel Gabriel is something from the sequel we slid back in – [as was] the relationship between heaven and hell, where we keep going back and forth between these two appalling places.”
The cast also includes Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale, David Tennant as the demon Crowley, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Satan. Gaiman promises the show will be “delightful and baffling” and unlike anything we’ve seen before. “The problem that we keep having when people say ‘what’s it like’ is they want us to compare it to something, and we don’t have anything to compare it to.” I am very excited for this.
And finally, because Gaiman apparently doesn’t have enough to do, Deadline reports that he’s writing and producing a revival of The Storyteller, the 1980s Jim Henson TV series featuring John Hurt telling fantastical tales.
Gaiman, being Gaiman, will put a bit of a twist on his version, exploring the world of the storyteller himself. He’ll live in a kingdom where telling stories is outlawed and punishable by imprisonment and execution. Gaiman is Gaiman-ing all over this thing.
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There’s no release date for The Storyteller yet. With Gaiman this active lately, am I the only one wondering if it’s finally time for a Sandman show?
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