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Why American Gods Didn't Get A Green light From HBO

Anyone still bummed HBO didn't end up doing American Gods? Well, it sounds like we aren't alone, as Vulture caught up with the networks' President of Programming Michael Lombardo about why it didn't work out, and he seems regrtful about it too.

Here's the whole exchange on American Gods, amongst other discussions about Game of Thrones, Darren Aronofsky doing MaddAddam and more:

I was sad when HBO lost the option on American Gods.
We were as well.

What happened?
I think we're all huge fans of the book, and I think the script just didn't — we couldn't craft the script as good as we needed it to be. I think we knew going in that it would be a challenge; every good book is a challenge to adapt it and find the level you need for it. The bar is high now for great dramas. And to find that bar — we tried. So it was a huge disappointment […] We tried three different writers, we put a lot of effort into it. Some things just don't happen. We have to trust at the end of the day, if you don't have a star with a great script, you're just not going to go through with it.

I understand.
Even though we love the book, we love the idea, we love the hope of what it could be, we just couldn't get it right.

Well, when he puts it that way, you can hardly blame them. Still, there's no guarantee the adaptation's new home will have any more success with it.

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