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Neil Gaiman shows his songwriting chops at Minnesota Public Radio’s Wits with a song he wrote as part of the 8in8 project. He performs “The Problem with Saints” with Josh Ritter (@joshritter), John Munson (@munsongs), Steve Roehm, The Ascots and The Brass Messengers.
via BoingBoing.
io9 has a great interview with Neil on the upcoming HBO series.
Obviously, everyone is really excited about the show and its being six seasons long. Do you have any definite plans or ideas you’re excited about?
We want to keep as much of the book in as possible, because that’s what everybody fell in love with. I don’t know how much I can say. My whole thing is trying not say anything until everyone is cast, you’ve got a pilot that’s been filmed that everybody loves and you’ve got a go-date. Talking too much about things is, I think, always foolish. I will say that currently the plan is basically the book American Gods is the first season. We have many plans beyond that, but the book will be the first season.
Yes, I’m excited!
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions will produce six seasons worth of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 earthbound-deities novel American Gods.
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The series-in-development, revolving around the question “are you a god if no one believes in you?” is executive produced by [Gary] Goetzman and Hanks, with Bob Richardson, and Gaiman on board as executive producer and writer.
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 [...] American Gods will be effects-heavy to do justice to the awe-inspiring power of the divine beings. “There are some crazy things in there. We’ll probably be doing more effects in there than it’s been done on a television series,” said Goetzman.
