Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys Welcomes Whoopi Goldberg because the God of Birds

Here’s some extra casting information for the extremely anticipated Amazon sequence primarily based on the 2005 novel Anansi Boys from writer Neil Gaiman: Whoopi Goldberg has been introduced to play the ebook’s principal antagonist, the God of Birds.

Entertainment Weekly studies that Goldberg, a self-proclaimed Gaiman tremendous fan, has formally joined the sequence. Goldberg joins Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods), who stars as Anansi aka Mr. Nancy, the African trickster god of tales, together with Malachi Kirby (Devils), who has a twin function as Mr. Nancy’s sons, Charlie and Spider.

The six-episode first season follows Charlie and Spider as they uncover every others’ existence—and simply who their father could have had some feuds with. Getting tangled in his net, they uncover that the God of Birds is out for vengeance and he or she’s obtained them in her sights. Goldberg instructed EW, “I have been a fan of this book for a very long time and when Neil Gaiman told me it was being brought to the screen, I did everything I could to be part of it to help make people aware of Anansi and all his magic.”

Author Neil Gaiman has had various his works tailored for the tv display screen and whereas American Gods most just lately featured the mythological Anansi, this adaptation is totally separate from that universe. For his half, Gaiman says he’s trying ahead to working with Goldberg on this take. “I wasn’t able to meet her until 2018, when she interviewed me with some of the Good Omens team at New York Comic Con,” the writer mentioned. “At which point she mentioned that she had just finished listening to Sir Lenny Henry’s reading of Anansi Boys, and that it was one of her favorite books.” As it occurs, she apparently even impressed the character as he was writing the ebook, about which Gaiman mentioned, “Sometimes things feel planned and inevitable, and we are incredibly lucky. She’s going to be scary.”

Anansi Boys continues to be in pre-production, so its arrival on Amazon Prime in all probability received’t be till 2023 on the earliest.

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