Before the premiere of the first season of The Sandman on digital platforms, there is still the question of why Neil Gaiman’s work was not adapted into a movie
After several years of development, The Sandman will finally make the leap from cartoons to television in the first live-action version, despite the interest of several studios in bringing Neil Gaiman’s story to film.
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The Sandman captivated readers between 1988 and 1996, so different studios such as Universal, and even Warner Bros. Pictures, a sister company of DC Comics, sought to adapt this saga to the cinema.
However, Gaiman himself pointed out, in an interview with Jake’s Takes, that due to the enormous nature of the story, trying to adapt it to two hours would mean discarding interesting passages from the Morpheus plot.
“You have three thousand pages of history and trying to fit it into a two-hour movie meant that you ended up throwing away everything that made Sandman interesting and work and made him human, and you ended up with something that meant nothing. And that was what happened over and over again when the Sandman scripts were written.”.
Even the Sandman himself pointed out that in the decade of the 90s he himself asked the executives of Warner Bros. not to make the Sandman movie.
“I remember I had my first meeting about a Sandman movie in 1990, and when I went to a meeting at Warners, they said, ‘What do you think about a Sandman movie?’ And I said, ‘Please don’t do it’”.
Welcome to the world of dreams and nightmares
The Sandman follows in the footsteps of Morpheus, the God of sleep, and his impact on the world, as he tries to right the cosmic and human mistakes he made during his existence.
The result is a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend seamlessly intertwine.
The Sandman premieres its first season on August 5 on the most famous platform in the world.
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Source: Jake’s Takes
The Sandman arrives at DC Black Label in a deluxe edition
One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman’s award-winning masterpiece The Sandman has set a standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the comics field.
SMASH and DC Black Label bring you The Sandman; Deluxe Edition Book 1. This edition collects issues 1-16 of The Sandman original series along with Sandman Midnight Theatre, authored by Neil Gaiman.
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