HBO is getting behind
Game of Thrones in a big way, and the company seems to think that fantasy could be the way to go into the future. So the channel is now negotiating a deal for the rights to
Neil Gaiman's novel
American Gods, and the current plan is for
Robert Richardson (yes, the cinematographer) and Neil Gaiman to jointly script the pilot.
American Gods would actually make quite good source material for an HBO series, as it is ...