Crispin Gloverhas appeared in a number of iconic roles of the years, from playing George McFly inBack to the Future, to his most recent part in one of the horror stories collected In Guillermo del Toro’sCabinet of Curiositieson Netflix. While discussing his latest role in the anthology series withScreen Rant, Glover was asked about another of his roles, that of Mr. World in theAmerican Godsseries. Although the Neil Gaiman adaptation started off strong, it began to stray from the source material and in doing so lost some viewers along the way. However, Glover would still love to return to his role, but admitted that he hasn’t heard anything yet. He said:
“It was based on a great book, I love Neil Gaiman’s original book, so it was definitely one of the reasons I wanted to do it was the end, my character has some interesting things happened at the very end, and we never got to do that. Like I said, it’s a challenge, but I really hope and very much would love to finish it, because the end was a great part for my character. I haven’t spoken with Neil Gaiman personally about it, but I think he wanted to get another entire season. I think that the financier were offering something less than a season, but that was all that I know about it. For me personally, I would just like to see the whole thing come to a conclusion so that it correlates to the book in some manner.”
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Will American Gods Season 4 Happen?
Like a number of other shows,American Godscame to a premature endwhen Starz pulled the plug on the show after three seasons. The third season came to an end without finishing the story, but despite the cast and crew saying at the time they would still try to conclude the story with a limited series or a feature length movie finale, there has been no word on anything like that happening.
There have been some shows saved after being canceled, withNetflix coming to the rescue of bothLuciferandManifest, but forAmerican Gods, it seems that even with stars such as Glover and lead Ricky Whittle wanting to finish the story of Shadow Moon in the correct way, it may be too late for the show to make a return.
Since the cancelation ofAmerican Gods, many of the cast members have moved on to other projects, Glover clearly being one of them, and Gaiman himself has thrown himself intoNetflix’s adaptation ofThe Sandmanas well as the upcoming second season ofGood Omens. It seems that even if a studio or streamer were interested in bringingAmerican Godsback one more time, it would not be an easy task to reassemble the original team. For that reason alone, it would appear that anyone still hoping to see a real conclusion to the epic visually mind-bending story will probably have to simply make do with reading Gaiman’s book and picturing what could have been themselves.
