The fantasy TV series was among the first major projects to use FirstStage Studios in Leith, Edinburgh
Author: Priyanca Rajput
Published: 24 May 2022
Filming wraps tomorrow (25 May) on Anansi Boys - Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman fantasy novel.
Endor Productions, Amazon Studios Red Productions and Gaiman’s The Blank Corporation produce the 6 x 60, which was among the first major projects to use FirstStage Studios in Leith, Edinburgh when filming began in November last year (Amazon’s The Rig had started shooting there a few months earlier).
Anansi Boys is a continuation of Gaiman’s deal with the SVoD giant. The second series of Good Omens also filmed in Scotland for the streamer.
Delroy Lindo and Malachi Kirby star in Anansi Boys; Lenny Henry was on the writing team alongside Arvind Ethan David, Kara Smith, and Racheal Ofori.
The story follows Charlie Nancy, a young man who is used to being embarrassed by his estranged father. But when his father dies, Charlie discovers that his father was Anansi: trickster god of stories. And he learns that he has a brother. Now his brother, Spider, is entering Charlie’s life, determined to make it more interesting but making it a lot more dangerous.
Anansi Boys is a standalone story, not a sequel or spin-off of Gaiman’s novel American Gods. The book’s story was originally developed in conversation between Gaiman and Henry with the series adaptation reuniting the collaboration between the pair.
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