So, is the kid not Mr. World's son?
STARZ has released a new trailer for American Gods, the upcoming television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed fantasy novel. The 8-episode first season will debut with "The Bone Orchard", written by showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, and directed by David Slade.
When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew. Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life. Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday’s bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in the center of a world that he struggles to understand. It’s a world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear both irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, like Technology and Media. Mr. Wednesday seeks to build a coalition of Old Gods to defend their existence in this new America, and reclaim some of the influence that they’ve lost. As Shadow travels across the country with Mr. Wednesday, he struggles to accept this new reality, and his place in it.
The new one minute, five second trailer opens with Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) asking "What's a god?" in a voiceover, before telling Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) "They're real if you believe in them."
"So, who are you?" asks Shadow.
"You wouldn't believe in me if I told you," replies Mr. Wednesday.
The next scene features Mr. Wednesday introducing Shadow as his man to Vulcan (Corbin Bersen), a new character created by Gaiman for the series.
"He does not know our world," remarks Zorya Vechernyaya (Cloris Leachman) as we see a quick glimpse of Shadow standing in an orchard of bones.
"I'm easing him in," replies Mr. Wednesday.
Next, we see Shadow's dead wife Laura Moon telling him "You've gotten yourself mixed up in some really weird shit."
We then see Mr. Wednesday talking to Easter (Kristin Chenoweth). He remarks, "You're as forgotten and unloved as any of us."
"I'm doing just fine," smiles Easter to someone off-camera, presumably Shadow.
Someone asks Mr. Wednesday if he's trying to start a war and he responds, "We're at war already...and we're losing."
Shadow asks someone off-camera "Who's after you?", just before we see a figure lighting up floor tiles as he walks like Michael Jackson in his "Billie Jean" video, who turns out to be Crispin Glover as Mr. World.
"The times, they are a'changing," quips Technical Boy (Bruce Langley) as he blows smoke rings while sitting in the back of his limousine.
Next, we see Shadow fighting Mad Sweeney (Pablo Schreiber) in a bar as Mr. Wednesday says in a voiceover "We need you to fight them, to show them who we are."
"They are gods, for god's sake!" shouts Easter as we see Czernobog (Peter Stormare) holding his bloody sledgehammer.
Someone asks Mr. Wednesday what the plan is and he replies "War." We then hear a gospel song with the words "Deliver me" as a bloody battle takes place. We see glimpses of Mr. Nancy (Orlando Jones) as Shadow says in a voiceover, "None of this feels real. It feels like a dream."
As we glimpse a minotaur with eyes of flame, Laura Moon bloody and carrying her severed arm as she walks down a suburban street, and an old ship on fire in the middle of the ocean, we hear Technical Boy saying, "And things are never going back to the way that they were."
"It will be glorious, win or lose," replies Mr. Wednesday.
If you'd like to check out the trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official STARZ account on YouTube...
American Gods premieres on STARZ on April 30, 2017.