While it's almost certain that fans would finally get to see Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation in theaters, fans can't help but wonder why it's taking too long.
During a recent sit down with MTV, JGL explained why the process of making the movie is "slow," but then again he assured everyone that it's "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."
And while he admitted that "Sandman" is a very complicated movie to adapt, he is confident that his version of the iconic comic character is going to be appreciated by purists and welcomed by those who are yet to be aware of the Morpheus Lord of Dreams.
In his participation with Reddit AMA, Joseph Gordon-Levitt seemed to want to tell fans that he is planning to somewhat "overhaul" "Sandman" and make it his own, but without compromising the "overall 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."
And while Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" could have just been adapted in TV, he explained that watching the story of Morpheus in the big screen is a much better option.
"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 while JGL is busy producing and directing the film there are rumors that he'll also be starring on it. However, he hasn't made any comment on that yet. He is probably too busy making sure that Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" would reach the big screen rather than acting on it.
