The gods, both new and old, converged at New York Comic Con Friday afternoon. The big panel with executive producer Neil Gaiman and his cast from American Gods was the moment Starz had been asking fans to wait for, in light of reports suggesting the two showrunner changes were just the tip of a crumbling iceberg.
This wasn’t the subject of the panel, however. Gaiman, Ricky Whittle, Pablo Schreiber, Emily Browning, Orlando Jones, Yetedi Badaki, Bruce Langley, Crispin Glover, Omid Abtahi, Mousa Kraish, and Demore Barnes cracked jokes about season 1 and emphasized that season 2 is going to be harder for everyone involved.
Ian McShane didn’t make it. As Gaiman divulged, “He will be zapping kidney stones, which he will then be pissing out.” An appropriately NSFW tidbit to kickoff a jaw-droppingly provocative show.
“Shadow has discovered exactly who he is working for and now season 2 is gonna begin just a few short hours later and everything is going to get both better and worse,” Gaiman prefaced. “The first place we are all headed is The House On the Rock, and they closed down the real House On the Rock for us for several days and let us film there.”
As an added tease for book fans, Gaiman said “the most useful piece of advice” he could give was this: “We do not get to Lakeside in this season. However, we do get to Cairo [Illinois], we do get to a funeral home, Laura and Mad Sweeney get to go on their own journey, which takes them to some hot and exotic places, and other than that I think it’s fair to say things get worse for everybody in dramatically interesting ways.”
Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, who were at the showrunning helm of American Gods season 1, parted ways with the production, prompting delays. Then Jesse Alexander, who came on to keep the show going, was reportedly asked to leave the production earlier this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Gaiman, who also acts as showrunner on Amazon’s Good Omens, said he wasn’t on set for season 2 day-to-day. “One of the things that really was inspiring from where I was on this, which was mostly across an ocean in a categorically different series, was how much all of the cast were invested in their characters, understood their characters this season. The writers were a whole new set of writers and the cast made sure that the integrity of their characters was never compromised and that, I think, says a lot for both the series itself and also for the fact that we have world-class actors who love and understand what they’re playing and are not prepared to compromise.”
Other new additions to season 2 include Kahyun Kim as New Media. Gillian Anderson won’t return as Media, the new god of entertainment and Hollywood, but New Media was glimpsed in the trailer as a New God of social media. Gaiman further teased “different incarnations of the Technical Boy,” played by Langley.
“In episode 6, which is mostly set in the 1930s, we get to meet the Telephone Boy, who had recently taken over from the Telegraph Boy, and Bruce gets to be all of these things,” the producer and author said. “With any luck, we may even find out where he’s going next.”
Jones’ Mr. Nancy will have more to do, as well. After his show-stealing monologue aboard a slave ship, this time he’s honing his attention to modern slavery, which he says is “mass incarceration and human trafficking. So it’s really focused on women.” There will be more backstory for Schreiber’s Mad Sweeney — Gaiman mentioned laying out “6,000 years of Mad Sweeney’s story” for the writers in episodes six and seven for potential use — and Barnes (returning as Thoth) teased an exploration of “adaptability and evolving” when it comes to the Old Gods. “There’s a reason why they were not only established but why they continue to endure.”
American Gods season 2 will premiere in 2019.
Stay tuned for more details on the new episodes from EW’s interviews with Gaiman and the cast.
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