Gaiman Daydreams About Sandman Movie
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Gaiman Daydreams About Sandman Movie
By Lewis Wallace December 29, 2008 | 6:15:06 PM
Categories: Books, Comics, Movies
Brit writer Neil Gaiman says it's inevitable that his comic book series The Sandman will be made into a movie.
"We're getting closer and closer to the point where you could make a Sandman movie, just because the world is changing," Gaiman told the Los Angeles Times in a wide-ranging interview about the fantastic comic's 20th anniversary.
"The thing that has really made it practical for the superhero movies to exist is the simple fact that you can put it on screen now. With trying to make superhero movies over the years, it has always been that you simply couldn't do it. They would say, 'You will believe a man can fly,' but you really wouldn't. Now, you pretty much can."
With Coraline, a 3-D, stop-motion animated film based on Gaiman's novel of the same name, set to hit theaters in February, the writer said he has high hopes and some nagging fears about bringing his sprawling Sandman series to the silver screen.
"The only thing I hope for is that whoever it goes to has the same amount of passion for it that Peter Jackson brought to Lord of the Rings," he said. "I want someone who will make the film because he loved it and he cared about it and if anybody was going to screw it up, it was going to be him.... There is someone out there. Or there will be someone out there in five or 10 years."
It was also suggested that instead of a movie, Sandman be turned into a TV show--another serial medium.
So, what do you think? Movie? Mini-series?
Gaiman Daydreams About Sandman Movie
By Lewis Wallace December 29, 2008 | 6:15:06 PM
Categories: Books, Comics, Movies
Brit writer Neil Gaiman says it's inevitable that his comic book series The Sandman will be made into a movie.
"We're getting closer and closer to the point where you could make a Sandman movie, just because the world is changing," Gaiman told the Los Angeles Times in a wide-ranging interview about the fantastic comic's 20th anniversary.
"The thing that has really made it practical for the superhero movies to exist is the simple fact that you can put it on screen now. With trying to make superhero movies over the years, it has always been that you simply couldn't do it. They would say, 'You will believe a man can fly,' but you really wouldn't. Now, you pretty much can."
With Coraline, a 3-D, stop-motion animated film based on Gaiman's novel of the same name, set to hit theaters in February, the writer said he has high hopes and some nagging fears about bringing his sprawling Sandman series to the silver screen.
"The only thing I hope for is that whoever it goes to has the same amount of passion for it that Peter Jackson brought to Lord of the Rings," he said. "I want someone who will make the film because he loved it and he cared about it and if anybody was going to screw it up, it was going to be him.... There is someone out there. Or there will be someone out there in five or 10 years."
It was also suggested that instead of a movie, Sandman be turned into a TV show--another serial medium.
So, what do you think? Movie? Mini-series?