What ever happened to Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation?
The project has long been anticipated by comic fans since it was announced years ago.
With Joseph Gordon-Levitt involved in the project, Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation is said to become one of the most raved about films when it arrives in theaters.
However, it seemed like the project has been taking too long to progress, which worries fans.
JGL on the other hand, has assured fans that things may be taking "slow" but it's all "steady."
"It's slow but steady," he told MTV.
Furthermore, Joseph Gordon-Levitt admitted that it's been really challenging for him to work on the movie adaptation fo Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" comics even comparing it to "Sandman."
"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 during his previous participation in Reddit AMA, JGL is confident that Morpheus Lord of Dreams is better seen in the big screen rather than on TV as a series.
"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."
Previously under Warner Bros. Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" movie adaptation is now under New Line Cinema.
