Neil Gaiman's American Gods

Mickeroo

Oh please please please let this happen!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49028

Bloody great book and has the potential to be a bloody great movie too. Anyone else read the book? Any idea on who the director could be? Apparently its an oscar winner, can't think who it could be. I'd love someone like guillermo del toro to tackle this.

dr gonzo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Oh please please please let this happen!!!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49028

Bloody great book and has the potential to be a bloody great movie too. Anyone else read the book? Any idea on who the director could be? Apparently its an oscar winner, can't think who it could be. I'd love someone like guillermo del toro to tackle this.

Great find! This would be amazing.

As for the director, many oscars...? No clue but interesting none the less.

Kess73

This has the potential to be a great book.


As for the director.

Well many oscars rules out guillermo del toro and Frank Darabont.

The first name that sprang into my head when I saw the mention of an oscar winning director was Clint Eastwood, as it brought to mind an interview he had after Million Dollar Baby came out.

In the interview he was talking about what genres he would like to tackle that he has not done already, and he mentioned doing something in the sci fi or fantasy now that technology had gotten to the stage where he would feel comfortable doing it.



I sure as hell hope it is not Ron Howard or James Cameron though.

Just trying to think who else over the last 20 or 30 years racked up plenty of Oscars and who is still active.

Stone, Scorsese, Spielberg, Jackson.


I'm still going with Clint though, as I think under his guidence a brilliant book could become a brilliant film.

bnt

I won't believe it until @neilhimself confirms, and he hasn't. What he actually said was:

For what I actually said on American Gods rights being sold: http://youtu.be/teRJeO0-xdw (Which is all I'll say until things are announced)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRJeO0-xdw

The speculation in the YouTube comments is that the director in question is David Fincher. Considering how busy Fincher is, I doubt it, but NG reportedly did an American Gods script for DF years ago.

What he has confirmed, though, is Good Omens. That book (by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett) is being adapted in to a 4-part TV series by Terry Jones (Monty Python).

Sad Professor

Fincher hasn't won any Oscars though, so it can't be him. He also doesn't have a consistent DP that he works with. In fact, most of them don't last more than 2 films before having a falling out with him and getting sacked.

And Howard, Cameron, Jackson and Spielberg are too busy. Soderberg is his own DP, but he claims he is quitting directing.

It sounds to me like it could be a DP who has become a director. Spielberg's cinematographer Janusz Kaminski perhaps. He has already directed a few things.

Bubs102

It's a phenomenally easy book. Really enjoyed it but I can't see it being done too well without taking out too many of the characters

Mickeroo

Terry Jones is adapting Good Omens?? Sweet! Terry Gilliam tried to get that made yonks ago.