Amazon Studios to adapt ‘Anansi Boys’ for series
Based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel, the six-part limited series will begin filming in Scotland later this year
Amazon Studios announced that it has ordered a series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel ‘Anansi Boys’. The six-episode limited series will begin shooting in Scotland later this year.
Based on Gaiman’s novel of the same name, ‘Anansi Boys’ follows Charlie Nancy, a young man who is used to being embarrassed by his estranged father. But when his father dies, Charlie discovers that his father was Anansi: trickster god of stories. And he learns that he has a brother. Now his brother, Spider is entering Charlie’s life, determined to make it more interesting but making it a lot more dangerous.
Gaiman, Sir Lenny Henry, Douglas Mackinnon, Hanelle M Culpepper, Hilary Bevan Jones, and Richard Fee are executive producers of the series. Gaiman and Henry will also write for the series along with Arvind Ethan David, Kara Smith, and Racheal Ofori.
Along with Mackinnon, Gaiman will serve as co-showrunner. Culpepper (‘Star Trek: Picard’, ‘Memories of Ptolemy Grey’) will direct the pilot. Jermain Julien (‘Grantchester’) and Azhur Saleem (‘Doctor Who’) are also directing for the series. Paul Frift will produce.
‘Anansi Boys’ is a stand-alone story, not a sequel or a spin-off of Gaiman’s novel ‘American Gods’. The book’s story was originally developed in a conversation between Gaiman and Henry with the series adaptation reuniting the collaboration between the pair.
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