Neil Gaiman Sandman film or TV series

Not unsurprisingly, I own all the graphic novel compilations of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics and am currently reading through them all yet again.  Easy to do.  The artwork in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics is superb, Neil Gaiman’s story writing is incredible and the characters literally out of this world … even when they aren’t.  Not only that, Sandman is often hilariously funny, deeply poignant and even tragic.  How many writers can manage that?  Neil Gaiman is truly exceptional.  Then you’ve got those amazing Sandman covers by Dave McKean as well! So what about a Sandman film or TV series?

A good adaption of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman could be the best thing ever in comic adaptions but a poor one would be deeply disappointing.  Fortunately, since 1991, Neil Gaiman has said that he’d rather see no ‘Sandman’ movie than a bad ‘Sandman’ movie made.  He said that the time of a good ‘Sandman’ movie is getting closer but feels that a ‘Sandman’ movie needs someone with the passion of a Peter Jackson for ‘Lord of the Rings‘  or Sam Raimi on ‘Spider-Man‘ to get the film through Warner Bros.

What I can never understand is why the original story lines never stand up when it comes to filming.  It seems that everyone is so frightened a film won’t work that they feel they must cherry-pick the best ideas from an entire series to make the first film.  This must cause a lot of problems for any sequels.  Then you get daft situations like the so-so Iron Man sequel when there is this amazing character The Mandarin in the Iron Man comics who hasn’t made an appearance in either film.  It beggars belief!

As far as my money goes I could imagine a series far longer than Heroes featuring Neil Gaiman’s Sandman but then maybe some daft idiot will pull the plug for no good reason like NBC did with Heroes.  So what do you think?  Film or TV series?  Should Neil Gaiman’s Sandman ever be made as a film or TV series at all?  I hope you feel the need to comment on this otherwise I guess nothing will ever happen anyway.  Oh, yes, I’d love to see a really top-notch adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.  If it doesn’t happen then I’ll keep reading the Sandman graphic novels until my eyes give out or the Corinthian comes for them! :-)

2 Responses to “Neil Gaiman Sandman film or TV series”

  1. 1Death on Aug 20, 2011 at 8:42 pm:

    I have read the sandman comics over and over, Neil gaimen is my favorite author of all time! I would love to see a sandman tv series the problems with the idea of a tv series is how many viewers will watch it. I know there are thousands of people who read the comics but will it draw in more outside viewers. Which brings me to another point; the cast. Who do you think will be playing these characters and will they live up to the expectations the die hard fans have made? Also when will see American gods on the big screen?

  2. 2Artists UK on Aug 21, 2011 at 8:03 am:

    Thanks for your comment death - Cool name of course :-)

    Yes, you are right with your concerns over the cast. It wouldn’t be the first time a film was ruined by putting a “big name” in just to boost the number of viewers - we all remember the awful choice of Stallone to play Judge Dredd and then he wouldn’t keep his helmet on like Judge Dredd always did in the comics! Let’s keep our fingers crossed that they can make Sandman work without any big names or that the big names are truly appropriate to the roles. Who do you reckon for playing Death then?

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