Overshadowed by Monday’s announcement that
FreemantleMedia picked up the film rights to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is news from none other than the author himself that his
Anansi Boys is being developed as a BBC miniseries.
There are no details, other than it’s being produced by RED, the U.K. company behind such television series as
Queer as Folk,
Bedlam and
Blood.
“Yes, I’m really thrilled about both of these things,”
Gaiman wrote on his blog, referring to
American Gods and
Anansi Boys. “Freemantle has the harder task, as they are going to have to open up
American Gods into something bigger than the book. RED are just going to have to make an absolutely brilliant faithful version of
Anansi Boys.”
Released in 2005,
Anansi Boys is a follow-up of sorts to
American Gods, centering on Fat Charlie Nancy, who attends the funeral of his estranged father to discover he was a human form of the trickster god Anansi. What’s more, Charlie learns he has a brother named Spider, who inherited some of their dad’s abilities.
