Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Direct and Star in Neil Gaiman's Sandman 0

[Gatsby77]

Why can't they just do this small-scale, like Constantine was?

 

Black Mirror has demonstrated how this could be done.

 

The point is, there are enough stand-alone stories in the Sandman run that they can just pick a few to tell in an anthology format. Like # 8, 10, 13, 18, 38, or any from 51 - 55.

 

# 19 would likely be to challenging / not the best choice cinematically and # 50's probably too expensive, due to the special effects required. But # 51-55 even has a framing device that could be used to launch the stories that's weirdly similar to the Black Mirror episode White Christmas (3 interconnected stories told while caught in a blizzard).

 

Point is, I think people are putting too much weight on paying homage to the whole Sandman mythos or the need to adapt Season of the Mists.

 

Tell a few separate but interconnected tales from the above - which are among the run's strongest stories anyway, and you're good.

 

[porcupine48]

Eight and ten for certain.

And Black Mirrors...amazing show.

 

[Bosco685]

Not sounding like this production is actually in float at this time.

 

[Bosco685]

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Yesterday, The Beat had a chance to talk with Mark and Brian Gunn, writers of the Screen Gems superhero-horror hybrid Brightburn. Towards the end of the interview, I asked what they’re up to next (as I usually do). While they’re no longer working on adapting Mark Millar‘s Jupiter’s Legacy (for reasons you can read in the full interview), Mark Gunn did tell The Beat.

 

“Among other things, we’re working on sort of a DC/Vertigo adaptation for New Line that we can’t totally talk about it, but it is not a heavy horror idea, I will say that.”

 

So let’s think about what that could possibly be.

 

New Line has had the rights to Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman and other Vertigo books for a couple years. Sandman is one of the movies the studio has been trying to crack for a while, as Joseph Gordon-Levitt was developing that to direct before he dropped out over two years ago. Around the same time, Eric Heisserer (Arrival) was tapped to rewrite the -script.

 

Recently (and probably every time he’s interviewed), Gaiman mentioned that the fate of a Sandman movie lies totally in the hands of DC and Time Warner, who own the property, but he also thought that a movie was very likely to happen. “As the years go on, the probability that a Sandman thing will happen, obviously, increase continually,” he said back in March at a SXSW panel for the upcoming Good Omens.

 

Another “Vertigo” book, of sorts, that has been talked about a lot in recent years was one based on DC Comics’ Justice League Dark — which brought together the likes of John Constantine and Zatanna, characters that have straddled the line between DC and Vertigo. That movie has had a very  long stream of writers and directors involved, including Guillermo del Toro and even Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman. The thing is that the Justice League Dark has never been associated directly with New Line as Sandman has, and in a story from 2015, when New Line took over the Vertigo line, it was stated that Justice League Darkwasn’t part of that, so we can rule that out.

 

The other thing is that Gunn says it’s not a “heavy horror idea” which rules out a lot, but doesn’t necessarily rule out Sandman, which is more high fantasy, even though it has its roots in horror.