During their panel at San Diego Comic-Con, STARZ and FremantleMedia North America have announced that Tony and Emmy-winner Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway’s “Wicked,” “Pushing Daisies”) will play Easter in Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods.
FMNA’s Craig Cegielski and Stefanie Berk are executive producing the series along with Fuller, Green, Slade and Neil Gaiman.
In the novel, Easter is an Old God described as a curvy blonde whose age is somewhere between 25 and 50.
Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies) and Michael Green (The River, Kings) serve as writers and showrunners.