Starz has debuted a new featurette for their upcoming small-screen take on Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and it serves as a handy introduction for those unfamiliar with the source materiel…
The pilot episode of Starz and Bryan Full’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods will be with us very soon, and we have a new featurette (it’s being sold as a trailer but clearly isn’t) that provides a much better idea of the plot for those that might have been feeling a little lost by the previous promos and teasers.
The American Gods series focuses on Shadow Moon, a man serving three years in prison. With only days remaining in his sentence, Shadow is given an unexpected early release after his beloved wife Laura is killed. Shadow finds himself next to a man named Wednesday, who offers Shadow a job. Wednesday appears to be nothing but a con artist who needs Shadow as a bodyguard, but is in fact the god Odin. Wednesday is making his way across America, gathering all the old gods, who have now incorporated themselves into American life, to confront the New Gods, including Media and Technology, who grow stronger. Based on the novel of the same name by author Neil Gaiman. Stars April 30th.