Neil Gaiman fait le point

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Neil Gaiman fait le point sur ce site.

Parmi les sujets abordés, son nouveau roman et l'adaptation ciné d'American Gods.

On turning his iconic novel American Gods into an HBO series

“Over the past decade I’ve had phone calls from famous actors and directors who’ve told me, ‘American Gods changed my f*cking life, it has to be a movie, we want the rights.’ But the question has always been, ‘How do we turn it into a movie?’ The story is too big for Hollywood – there’s not one ending – so TV is the best format. Everyone at HBO is waiting anxiously for me to finish the third draft of the pilot script. Once there’s a pilot script, they’ll commission the first series. If 
the first series does well, they’ll commission a second. People have said it’s confirmed for six series, but that comes from [HBO] saying it would like something that could go on for that length of time.”

On his trippy new book

“The Ocean At The End Of The Lane was hard to write, as much of it is from a child’s perspective [it involves the narrator, aged seven, being hunted by malevolent creatures from another world], but I found that angle fascinating. The idea of weird things happening that nobody tells you about. I’ve stolen locations and stories from my childhood for it, which made one of my sisters really grumpy. But this is absolutely an adult novel – it gets very dark.”