I guess getting a account book - exact TV serial publication of Neil Gaiman ’s American Gods novel from the same idiot box channel that was already making an excellent adaptation of Game of Thrones was too much to take for . But HBO lastly explain why they gave up on the much - previse show .
In a word , the script . As Michael Lombardo , HBO president of programming , explained toVulture :
I was lamentable when HBO lost the pick on American Gods .
We were as well .
What happened?I cogitate we ’re all huge fan of the book , and I think the book just did n’t — we could n’t craft the script as good as we needed it to be . I conceive we make out going in that it would be a challenge ; every estimable book is a challenge to adapt it and discover the grade you need for it . The bar is high now for great dramas . And to get that bar — we essay . So it was a huge disappointment [ … ] We essay three different writers , we put a lot of effort into it . Some thing just do n’t happen . We have to entrust at the death of the day , if you do n’t have a principal with a enceinte script , you ’re just not function to go through with it .
I understand . Even though we love the al-Qur’an , we love the idea , we get laid the Leslie Townes Hope of what it could be , we just could n’t get it right .
Um , forgive me , American Gods fans , but I ca n’t help but be relieved HBO had the mien of mind to 1 ) know when a show is n’t working and 2 ) just stop , rather than do it badly to make some $ . Yes , it ’s a shame they could n’t find a author to transmute the book into a slayer script , but if they had gone ahead with it anyway , we ’d have a crappy American Gods series and that would in all probability be it forever . Now at least some other duct has a prospect to get the rights and do the series correctly . You ca n’t really ask much more of a web than that .
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