5 Reasons You Should Be Excited For ‘Anansi Boys,’ The Latest Neil Gaiman TV Adaptation
By Vanessa Armstrong/July 21, 2021 11:45 am EST
Adding Anansi Boys to the roster of Gaiman stories making their way to the small screen is a wonderful thing. Here are five reasons I think it’s wonderful, and why I think you’ll be excited about this news as well.
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Gaiman in control also means that it will be made in a way that properly reflects the book. In a blog post, Gaiman shared a horrifying yet all-too-believable story about how a Hollywood director wanted the rights to Anansi Boys but wanted to make the cast all white. Taking a story about two sons of a West African spider-god and making everyone white is, in a word, bad. Such missteps (a mild word for it) won’t happen under Gaiman’s watch.
