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Amazon River is bringing another Neil Gaiman book to the small screen

David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Good Omens

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Virago is set to adapt Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel, Anansi Boys.

The novel follows Charlie Nancy, a man World Health Organization's used to living in the tincture of his estranged father. However, when his Fatherhood dies, Charlie discovers that he was actually Anansi, the trickster god of stories. He also finds come out that he has a brother named Wanderer, and Spider's presence in his life threatens to turn everything upside down.

Gaiman will co-write the half dozen-episode limited series with comedian Lenny Henry and Hanelle M. Culpepper, WHO has previously worked on shows like Criminal Minds, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Picard, will unmediated the pilot. Filming is imputable start in Scotland later this year.

Despite succeeding the escapades of the gods (dead or otherwise), the novel is a standalone tale rather than a by-product of Gaiman's book American Gods. Withal, Mr. Nancy – AKA Anansi – does appear in both titles. He was played by Orlando Daniel Jones in the Starz TV adaption of American Gods, merely no casting information has been free for Anansi Boys yet.

Gaiman and Henry originally developed the ideas for the Book together. "Anansi Boys began some 1996, from a conversation I had with Lenny Patrick Henry about writing a story that was diverse and part of the culture that we both admired," Gaiman said in a affirmation. "I wrote a novel, an (I hope) joyous and comic book about a dead god and his cardinal sons, nigh birds and ghosts and beasts and cops, based in Caribbean and African tales." He added: "Anansi Boys as a TV series has been a long time approaching."

This isn't the first metre a Gaiman novel has been adapted by Amazon, either – Good Omens, a book atomic number 2 co-wrote with the late Dame Ellen Terry Pratchett, is currently an Amazon River Prime series starring David Tennant and Michael Shininess as representatives of paradise and perdition on Earth. It was renewed for a second season last calendar month. Meanwhile, Gaiman's laughable book series The Sandman is approach soon to Netflix, with a major-studded cast including Charles Dancing and Gwendoline Christie.

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