American Gods: 11 Things You Need To Know

3. A Marvel Universe Of Gods

Adding plenty of new material to the series certainly fits with expanding the scope of where this story could go, not just in Season 1 but all the way down the line, depending on far long it lasts.

One of the intriguing things Bryan Fuller said about the project was that he hoped to develop it further, telling Crave (after a question about the book's 'sequel' Anansi Boys):

“Well, we don’t have the rights to Anansi Boys but we’re hoping that we will eventually. Mr. Nancy is going to play a major role in the series and potentially what we’re looking at with American Gods is developing a Marvel Universe, not with superheroes but with gods. As detailed and integrated as the Marvel Universe is, and doing that with deities is something that excited all of us.

"So who knows? In success we may have spin-offs of American Gods that follow lesser gods in greater detail than you might in the main series, but there’s all sorts of potential for this show that we’re very excited about and I hope the audience is as enthusiastic as we are so we can bring those dreams to fruition.”

So there is definite spin-off potential here, which is intriguing if a long way off, but it does also mean we should really be getting to know a lot more about the Gods that we meet in the book, and see things from some of their perspectives, which is going to be very interesting to witness.