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 Starz
is doing a second season of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods even though showrunners
Bryan Fuller and Michael Green are no longer on the show. Gillian Anderson has
bailed on the show as the shape-shifting deity Media and will be replaced by an
Asian woman in her twenties called, New Media, who receives her power by
engagement on social media networks. That character will be played by Shameless’
Kahyun Kim. Kristin Chenoweth has decided not to return as Easter, the goddess
of spring and resurrection. She was going to appear in quite a few episodes of
the new season but left because Fuller isn’t around. We will see Dean Winters
(30 Rock) and Devery Jacobs (Mohawk Girls) join the show as Mr. Town and Sam
Black Crow. Mr. World (Crispin Glover) has tasked Mr. Town with tracking down
Shadow (Ricky Whittle) and finding out what he knows about the plans of Mr.
Wednesday (Ian McShane). Sam Black Crow is a college student who sells the
chainsaw art she carves by the roadside for extra money. The season became more
troubled behind the scenes with Starz and the production company Fremantle
cutting the knees from under executive producer and showrunner Jesse Alexander.
He was or wasn’t fired after he complained about the seven drafts he wrote for
the season finale that were rejected. THR reported that Gaiman wasn’t happy with
Fuller and Green’s scripts for the second season and had them fired. He
hand-picked Alexander and has taken a more direct role in the creation of the
series. So Alexander tossed the scripts and started over but the actors found
them so weak they changed their own dialogue on the day of shooting. A
replacement for Alexander had been found and left once he/she saw what was going
on. With the delays the show isn’t likely to return until late 2019. |
