Sandman – Neil Gaiman sabotaged the comic book adaptation. The text included, among other things mechanical spiders

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Character Book Sandman It was published in the years 1989-1996 and attempts have been made to modify it for many years. Above all, Warner Bros. had Plans to make a movie based on a graphic novel. Neil GaimanThis is a comic book writer who oversaw this process. But he always said he’d rather not make a Sandman movie than make a bad one. He even went so far as to sabotage once, which he admitted in an interview with Rolling Stone.

When Neil Gaiman got the script for the movie he thought was too weak, he decided to send it to the Ain’t It Cool News web portal for comment.

I was wondering what Ain’t It Cool News would think of the scenario they would have without revealing their identity. And they wrote a great article about it being the worst case scenario ever published. Suddenly the possibility of making this movie disappeared.

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Jon Peters was working on the script. Gaiman admitted that it was the worst scenario he had ever read. He also revealed that they contained huge mechanical spiders. but that is not all. Lucifer, Morpheus, and Corinthian were identical brothers. Before midnight of 1999, the beginning of the new millennium, there was a race between them for a ruby, a helmet, and a sandbag. The winner was the winner. Gaiman added that he was always trying to find the positive, but when he was called from the office, he said directly what he thought about the script.

A guy from John Peters’ office called me and said, “Well, Neal, did you have a chance to read the script we sent you?” “Yes, I haven’t read it all, but I’ve read enough.” She says, “So it’s cool, isn’t it?” And I said, “Well, no. It’s not really like that.” He said, “Oh, come on. There must have been things I liked.” I said, “There was nothing I liked there. There was nothing I liked. It was the worst scenario I’ve ever read. It’s just not the worst scenario.” Sandman. It was the worst case scenario I’ve ever had.”

Several versions of the script have been rejected over the years. In 2013, it was announced that a film will be produced with the participation of David S. Goyer, Neil Gaiman, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as producers. The latter was supposed to play the role of Morpheus. DC Director Diane Nelson announced that Sandman It would be on par with the world of Harry Potter. Eventually, the rights passed to Netflix in 2019, which created a series instead of a movie. Production on the platform began at the beginning of August 2022. It is not yet known whether there will be new seasons. The writer says they are on the right track, but a decision will be made a month after launch when the platform is satisfied with the viewing results.

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Sandman The first season, consisting of 11 episodes, is available on Netflix.

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rollingstone.com // deadline.com