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Jun 28, 2018 · Sony Pictures is moving forward with a live action adaptation of the Valiant Comics superhero story Faith, and the studio has hired American Gods scribe Maria Melnik to write the film. The...
The studio has enlisted American Gods writer Maria Melnik to pen the screenplay for the adaptation. Melnik is credited with writing eight episodes for Starz’s television adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel, as well as additional writing work on the network’s Counterpart and Black Sails series.
- Coming to America
- Laura and The Coin
- Odin’s Raven
- The Faces of Media Who Fell to Earth
- The Police Station
In an interesting departure from the other “Coming to America” we’ve witnessed on the show thus far, this episode documents the coming of Siberian travelers across the Bering Strait with stylized animation, using an aesthetic that feels reminiscent of the Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Atsula and her god Nunyu...
Speaking of which, now that Mad Sweeney knows just who’s got it, he’s not about to give it up easily, telling Laura it’s the sort of coin that “you give to the King Of America himself.” Sweeney calls Wednesday Grimnir, another one of Odin’s names from a mythological poem known as the Grímnismál, and “ginger minge” is Irish slang for a red-headed wo...
Eat your heart out, Game of Thrones—American Gods officially has the best ravens in TV. In Norse mythology, Odin’s ravens Huginn and Muninn fly around Midgard and report information to him. It’s unclear which one this is, but we’ll definitely see them both again before the series is through.
Other references you might have missed, in quick succession: Media says Technical Boy’s “got your transmission and your live wire” (from “Rebel Rebel”) but “your circuit’s dead” (from “Space Oddity); that there is “a terror in knowing what Mr. World is about” (from “Under Pressure,” with a small modification); that Technical Boy is “putting out the...
Even when Mr. Wednesday is trying to con his way out of an arrest, he’s downright poetic; the few lines of verse he speaks are by 19th century poet William Ernest Henley, who also wrote “Invictus.” In any event, everything that happens in the police station is entirely new to the series, placed there to establish a meeting between Wednesday and his...
Jun 29, 2018 · Sony has tapped American Gods writer Maria Melnik to write the Faith movie. That means a female-led comic book movie is being written by a woman, which is already an inclusive play.
Jun 29, 2018 · Now Deadline reports a Faith superhero movie will be adapted by American Gods writer Maria Melnik, joining the other Valiant Comics movies in the works like Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong...
- Ethan Anderton
Jun 29, 2018 · Sony Pictures confirmed a film adaptation of the Valiant Comic series, Faith, with a script by Maria Melnik ( American Gods and forthcoming The Escape Room ), Deadline reported Thursday....
Jun 11, 2017 · Perhaps co-creators Bryan Fuller and Michael Green and episode writer Maria Melnik thought that the viewers needed a breather after the heaviness of last week’s politically charged episode.
