‘American Gods‘ returns for its 2nd Season in March 2019 on Amazon Prime UK, and today the streaming service has released a new trailer for the upcoming series.
Starring Ricky Whittle (‘The 100’) as Shadow Moon and Ian McShane (‘Deadwood’) as Mr. Wednesday, the 8-part drama, ‘American Gods’, is an adaptation from Neil Gaiman’s (‘Stardust’, ‘Good Omens’) best-selling novel about a war brewing between Old Gods and New Gods: the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world steadily losing believers to an upstart pantheon of gods reflecting society’s modern love of money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs.
We were forged in God’s image, but the Gods are also made in ours – and in Season 2 the battle moves inexorably toward crisis point as the destinies of gods and men collide. While Mr. World (Crispin Glover, ‘Alice in Wonderland’) plots revenge for the attack against him in Season One, Shadow throws in his lot with Wednesday’s attempt to convince the Old Gods of the case for full-out war, with Laura (Emily Browning, ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events‘) and Mad Sweeney (Pablo Schreiber, ‘Orange is the New Black’) in tow. A council at the House on the Rock explodes into chaos, sending deities both Old and New on quests across America that will converge on Cairo, Illinois: forcing Shadow to carve out a place as a believer in this strange new world of living gods – a dark world where change demands commitment, and faith requires terrible sacrifice.
American Gods also stars Emily Browning as Laura Moon, Pablo Schreiber as Mad Sweeney, Crispin Glover as Mr. World, Orlando Jones (‘Sleepy Hollow’) as Mr. Nancy, Yetide Badaki (‘This Is Us’) as Bilquis, Bruce Langley (‘Deadly Waters’) as Tech Boy, Mousa Kraish (‘Transparent’) as The Jinn, Omid Abtahi(Legends) as Salim, and Demore Barnes (’12 Monkeys’) as Mr. Ibis. Guest stars include Cloris Leachman (‘Malcolm in The Middle’) as Zorya Vechernyaya, Peter Stormare (‘Fargo’) as Czernobog, and joining Season Two are Sakina Jaffrey (‘House of Cards’) as Mama-Ji, Dean Winters (‘Divorce’) as Mr. Town, Devery Jacobs (‘The Order’) as Sam Black Crow and Kahyun Kim (‘Shameless’) as New Media.
Written by Neil Gaiman in 2001, American Gods has been translated into over 30 languages and earned numerous accolades including Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards for Best Novel.
The first episode of ‘American Gods‘ Season 2 premieres Monday, 11th March 2019 on Amazon Prime, with new episodes following weekly.
