STARZ Green-Lit TV Series Based on Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Neil Gaiman's Hugo and Nebula-Award-winning novel, American Gods, is coming to TV.

STARZ officially announced Tuesday that they have given a green light to Fremantle Media North America to adapt American Gods for the small screen. Fantasy and sci-fi veterans Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Heroes) and Michael Green (Heroes, Kings) will executive produce and write the adaptation. Neil Gaiman will also be an executive produer. According to Variety, production on the series will start as soon as the network casts the protagonist, Shadow Mo.

American Gods tells the story of Moon, an ex-con who finds himself thrown into a unbelievable war between the gods of new and old. As biblical and mythological gods clash with a young league of new gods powered by media, money and vice, the fate of godhood hangs in the balance. The book has earned the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel, and has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Here's a press release from Starz:

I am thrilled, ‎scared, delighted, nervous and a ball of glorious anticipation. The team that is going to bring the world of ‘American Gods' to the screen has been assembled like the master criminals in a caper movie: I'm relieved and confident that my baby is in good hands. Now we finally move to the exciting business that fans have been doing for the last dozen years: casting our Shadow, our Wednesday, our Laura.

So are you excited to see the American Gods TV series?