"Sandman" movie release date is not yet here, which is understandable because the production team behind the Neil Gaiman character is yet to start on the filming.
Also, assigned producer Joseph Gordon-Levitt is being careful on the script which he thinks is the most important element of the film. For him, adapting a comic book series like "Sandman" is very hard since it is not a graphic novel like another successful DC Comics movie adaptation "Watchmen."
Talking to IGN, rumored "Sandman" movie star Gordon-Levitt said the movie will not be a straight adaptation.
"We're working on it. Sandman is... I love it too, but it's not an obvious adaptation," the 34-year old actor said when asked about the progress of "Sandman" movie.
"They've been trying. There's been drafts of Sandman scripts. I was talking to Neil Gaiman about this and he said, 'I've read so many Sandman scripts!' For decades! For the last 20 years, there's been different tries and the reason is Sandman is a series of comics."
Gordon-Levitt, who will co-produce the "Sandman" movie alongside David S. Goyer and Neil Gaiman, went on to compare his latest project to "Watchmen."
"Each issue is 24 pages and it's written that way. As a serial, kind of more episodic thing. If you examine it from the broad strokes, there is sort of a beginning, middle and end, but it was written in such this episodic way. It's not like adapting a graphic novel. Like Watchmen is a book. This isn't that, so it really takes quite a bit of creativity and ingenuity to figure out, okay, how can we take all these kind of disparate episodes and make them congeal into a movie - a feature film that's got a beginning, middle and end."
"Sandman" movie release date is yet to be determined but based on an interview with Goyer on Deadline, the script is looking good.
