Gaiman has teamed up with The Jim Henson Company and Fremantle Media (the company behind Gaiman's American Gods series on Starz) for a new version of The Storyteller, Jim Henson's 1987 anthology series that offered new interpretations of classic fairy and folk tales. Gaiman will script the series and serve as an executive producer alongside Lisa Henson, CEO of the Jim Henson Company and Henson's daughter, who helped inspire the series with own her folklore studies. Like the original series, the new Storyteller will adapt various stories from folklore, but will be updated "for the bingeing kind" of audience, according to Gaiman. Speaking to Deadline, Gaiman outlined his starting point for the series. “Who was the Storyteller, why was he telling these stories, was he a goblin, what kind of creature? What I’d love to do is an inside story that’s as long as the outside story.” “Part of what fascinates me about The Storyteller is the stuff that we don’t know,” he said. Gaiman is a self-taught expert in fairy tales and folklore, and has spoken frequently of his childhood love of mythology that ultimately translated into a career as a storyteller himself. Stories like The Sandman and American Gods frequently deal with characters from folklore and mythology, and in 2017 he released Norse Mythology, featuring his own retellings of several classic Norse myths.
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