When Warner Bros. released its movie timeline, fans started to question why Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation was not included.
Gaiman previously explained that it's because "Sandman" is under Vertigo distribition and not DC Comics alone, thus it's not included in the lineup.
Now Warner Bros. has announced that it will move all it's upcoming Vertigo movie adaptations to New Line Cinema, that includes "Sandman" movie, Deadline exclusively reported.
"Warner Bros-owned DC Comics imprint Vertigo movie titles are going to come under the auspices of New Line Cinema, I'm told. Warner Bros has its hands full with Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman and all of the other tentpole pictures they are planning from DC titles, and so it would make sense for the Vertigo titles to be steered under Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener. The Vertigo titles are considered subversive compared to the WB-steered DC Comics titles with those venerable superheroes."
And while all has been settled with the distributing company, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has been really keen in pursuing with the project, had participated in a Reddit AMA, where he candidly talked about his plans for the movie and what possible changes fans are about to see once "Sandman" hits theaters.
Furthermore, he explained that while most would prefer to adapt the entire original storyline from the comics, it's better for "Sandman" to be told in a different level of narrative structure. However, he promised that he's not going to sacrifice the over-all sentiment of the character.
"There's tons of little brilliant moments throughout the series, and we certainly can't incorporate all of them," he explained.
"We are using a whole bunch of specifics straight from the comics, but of course, we're also having to do a certain amount of invention, and in between that, there's tons of re-appropriating, re-contextualizing, combining, consolidating, and all manner of things that literalists might not like. But what we try to be completely faithful about is the overall sentiment: that Dreams and Stories and Magic are actually all the same thing, and that they're real, and that they're powerful."
He also pointed out the that while TV's cinematic visualization has improved, fans would get to see Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" better if it's shown on the big screen.
"I think a big screen adaptation is a better idea and here's why," he said of his project.
"If you did the episodic version, I think it could very well end up as a not-as-good-version of what is already brilliant in the comics. But by reworking the material into a big movie, Gaiman's brilliant characters and ideas get to take shape in a way they never have before. Also, I think Sandman deserves to look absolutely mind-blowingly awesome, just on a visual level, and as cinematic as some tv shows are becoming these days, they still can't compete with big movies visually, just because they can't afford to."
And in a separate interview, this time with MTV during Guys Choice Awards, JGL said that while the progress of the movie is "slow" it's definitely "steady."
"It's slow but steady," he told MTV.
"It's a really complicated adaptation because those comics, they're brilliant, but they're not written as a whole. It's not like Watchmen, which is a graphic novel that has a beginning, middle, and end. Sandman was written over the course of whatever, I forget exactly, six or seven years. One at a time. One little 20-page issue at a time. And to try to take that and make it into something that's a feature film - a movie that has a beginning, middle, and end - is complicated."
