While the progress to Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation seems to be taking so long, a new development suggest that a possible reason for this could have something to do with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's plans.
In his Reddit AMA, JGL has revealed that he is actually planning to deviate from the comics' story. However, he promised fans that while he's going to produce a different level of narrative structure, the "sentiment" of "Sandman" will not be compromised.
"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."
Furthermore, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has expressed his confidence in bringing Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation to the big screen instead of it having a TV adaptation.
"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 an interview with MTV, the 34-year-old actor-producer assured fans who are growing impatient that "Sandman" is definitely pushing through.
"It's slow but steady," he told MTV.
He futher explained that while he is also excited to start filming, it must be taken into consideration that "Sandman" is a complex and complicated story that should be treated with careful thinking, thus production should not be rushed.
"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."
