Neil Gaiman’s novel Anansi Boys to be made into a series

Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling novel Anansi Boys will soon be made into a series. It will be a six-part limited series and air on Amazon Prime Video. Anansi Boys revolves around Charlie Nancy, a young man who is used to being embarrassed by his estranged father. But when he dies, Charlie discovers that his father was Anansi - trickster God of stories! And he learns that he has a brother too. Now his brother, Spider, enters Charlie’s life and is determined to make it more interesting as well as a lot more dangerous.

Gaiman, Sir Lenny Henry, Douglas Mackinnon, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Hilary Bevan Jones and Richard Fee will be the executive producers for the series.

Says Gaiman, “Anansi Boys began around 1996, from a conversation I had with Lenny Henry about writing a story that was diverse and part of the culture that we both loved. I wrote a novel, a joyous and funny book about a dead God and his two sons, about birds and ghosts and beasts and cops, based in Caribbean and African tales. It was my first number one NYT Bestseller, and went on to become an award-winning book.”