Bad Hollywood, bad! :smacks on nose with rolled up newspaper:
On IMDB today, they have a link of seven films some movie site wants to see out of development limbo. The fifth one is a movie of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
When it came to the Watchmen movie (haven't seen it yet), I thought "huh, that's going to be a challgenge and piss Alan Moore off," but I didn't really have much of an opinion on it being made. For a wannabe writer, I'm surprisingly lenient when it comes to movies being made into books-I don't always agree with it, and I'm sick to death of prestigious books being made into movies for Oscar bait, but when it comes down to it, I loved Lord of the Rings, Requiem for a Dream, Mysterious Skin, Brokeback Mountain, Brothers of the Head, The Cider House Rules, Beloved, Angels in America, Of Mice and Men, Affliciton. Along with the numerous comic book movies and Shakespeare adaptations. Sometimes a great or even just a good movie is made based on a work of fiction. Maybe both are equally good, and maybe each has its own, different merits.
Please though, do not, DO NOT, make Sandman into a movie. Aside from not being able to comprehend how you could utterly begin to streamline the thousands of stories and themes of Sandman into a coherent 3 hour movie that would even begin to resemble and respect its source...but I've just made my point, haven't I? And truthfully, I have no desire to see a CGI Robert Pattinson playing Dream, or Zooey Deschanel playing Death, or Ian McKellen as Destiny, or Aflonso Cuaron or Guillermo Del Toro, or Darren Aronofsky directing it; I do not want to see a CGI Dreaming, with Matthew the Raven with the voice of John Malkovich and Timothy Spall and Gary Oldman as Abel and Cain. Even with utterly wonderful, respected talent or utterly horrid, bad talent behind it, I do not want to see a Sandman movie. Thankfully Neil Gaiman has ignored everything in such an effort thrown at him so far. Let something wonderful about words, ideas, stories, the quill taken to the page, dreams in yours and my head, remain on the page in words and pictures. Please?
When it came to the Watchmen movie (haven't seen it yet), I thought "huh, that's going to be a challgenge and piss Alan Moore off," but I didn't really have much of an opinion on it being made. For a wannabe writer, I'm surprisingly lenient when it comes to movies being made into books-I don't always agree with it, and I'm sick to death of prestigious books being made into movies for Oscar bait, but when it comes down to it, I loved Lord of the Rings, Requiem for a Dream, Mysterious Skin, Brokeback Mountain, Brothers of the Head, The Cider House Rules, Beloved, Angels in America, Of Mice and Men, Affliciton. Along with the numerous comic book movies and Shakespeare adaptations. Sometimes a great or even just a good movie is made based on a work of fiction. Maybe both are equally good, and maybe each has its own, different merits.
Please though, do not, DO NOT, make Sandman into a movie. Aside from not being able to comprehend how you could utterly begin to streamline the thousands of stories and themes of Sandman into a coherent 3 hour movie that would even begin to resemble and respect its source...but I've just made my point, haven't I? And truthfully, I have no desire to see a CGI Robert Pattinson playing Dream, or Zooey Deschanel playing Death, or Ian McKellen as Destiny, or Aflonso Cuaron or Guillermo Del Toro, or Darren Aronofsky directing it; I do not want to see a CGI Dreaming, with Matthew the Raven with the voice of John Malkovich and Timothy Spall and Gary Oldman as Abel and Cain. Even with utterly wonderful, respected talent or utterly horrid, bad talent behind it, I do not want to see a Sandman movie. Thankfully Neil Gaiman has ignored everything in such an effort thrown at him so far. Let something wonderful about words, ideas, stories, the quill taken to the page, dreams in yours and my head, remain on the page in words and pictures. Please?