Tag: American Gods
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10 Best Kills in ‘Hannibal,’ Ranked by Gruesomeness
Writer/producer Bryan Fuller has created some of the most mind-bending television shows of the 2000s – like Pushing Daisies, American Gods, and Star Trek: Discovery. In 2024, he is tapped to produce the Friday the 13th prequel series, Crystal Lake, which will tackle the years leading up to killer Jason Vorhees’ legacy. Fuller is no…
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‘Dark Harvest’ Trailer: David Slade’s Long-Awaited Horror Film Arrives In October
It’s kinda crazy to think that since 2010 (when he released the massively popular “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse“), filmmaker David Slade has only worked on one feature film, 2018’s experimental Netflix project, “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.” Sure, over that time, he has worked quite a bit with quality TV series like “Breaking Bad,” “Hannibal,” and “American…
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The Sandman: How Neil Gaiman’s Willingness to Reframe Characters Led to Success
By the time Neil Gaiman published the final issue of his comic book The Sandman in 1996, he’d created a world populated with a wide array of characters, each with a significant purpose for the overall story. Decades after the successful comic book run ended, Gaiman finally found the right opportunity to adapt his story…
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‘The Sandman’ Trailer: Tom Sturridge Plays Neil Gaiman’s Master Of Dreams In Netflix’s New Series [Comic-Con]
While Warner Bros. is expanding their D.C. Comics franchise on both big and small screens, it’s a little odd to see something like Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic “The Sandman” gobbled up by Netflix when HBO Max is right there, a deal made long before Warners planned on the streaming service. The project is a streaming…
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Neil Gaiman Didn’t Want American Gods To Repeat Game Of Thrones’ Mistakes
With the wonderful adaptations of “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Station Eleven,” “Pachinko,” and so on, it’s become clearer than ever that television is the best medium for adapting novels, not film. This was shown perhaps most clearly through the first season of “American Gods,” which dedicated eight hour-long episodes to the first hundred or so pages…
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Giannis Antetokounmpo Biopic ‘Greek Freak’ Casts Newcomer Uche Agada as Young NBA Star
The Disney+ film “Greek Freak” has found its lead to play a young Giannis Antetokounmpo, newcomer Uche Agada.Agada will play the Greek Freak himself, NBA and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, in a film about Antetokounmpo’s life and his family about how they lifted themselves out of poverty as undocumented immigrants in Greece.Also joining the…
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‘American Gods’ Continues To Struggle To Find Its Voice In Season Three [Review]
The behind-the-scenes saga of “American Gods” has been almost more interesting than the show itself. After years of attempts to adapt Neil Gaiman’s beloved novel, it seemed to have a perfect fit in the visionary Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal”), the co-showrunner of season one with Michael Green. While the first season got strong reviews and an…
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‘American Gods’ Season 3 Trailer Sees Ricky Whittle Wearing the Hell Out of Some Winter Clothing
Starz dropped by New York Comic-Con today to reveal the first trailer for American Gods season 3. The series, adapted from Neil Gaiman’s novel, stars Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon, a man who gets drawn into a war between the Old Gods and the New Gods by his crafty father, Odin (Ian McShane). American Gods…
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SAG-aftra Expands ‘America’s Got Talent’ Fremantle Probe After Orlando Jones’ Firing From ‘American Gods’
SAG-aftra is expanding the scope of an investigation into the firing of “America’s Got Talent” host Gabrielle Union. It will now take a deeper look into producer Fremantle after Orlando Jones claimed he was fired from “American Gods,” another Fremantle series, for racist reasons.The talent union, which represents 160,000 actors, journalists, performers, and other media…