Neil Gaiman refused to turn “The Sandman” into a superhero movie like Superman

Now that Netflix’s new fantasy series is about to hit the catalog, the creator and writer of the original novel, Neil Gaiman, talks about previous attempts to bring his story to the big screen and claims that Warner Bros has offered him to convert “The Sandman ‘in a superhero movie like Superman.

Throughout history, there have been several attempts to adapt Neil Gaiman’s story, which was published by DC Comics and later transferred to the Vertigo imprint. And it is that “The Sandman” is one of the best comics in history according to specialized critics, and that it has won several literary awards, therefore, for its creator, this had to be a work like never before.

As early as 1991 there was an interest in making a film by ‘The man of sand’, but nothing came of it. It wasn’t until 2013 that David S. Goyer proposed to Warner Bros to make an adaptation of the story of Neil Gaiman, who would later join as a producer, along with Joseph Gordon Levitt, who would be the main character.

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In an interview with Jake’s Takes, Neil Gaiman explains why he refused to make a film ‘The man of sand’, and claims it was Warner Bros’ intentions with his work that caused him to retract. “The problem was that you had 3,000 pages of history and trying to fit it into a two-hour movie meant that in the end you threw away everything that made Sandman interesting and working and human, and you ended up with something that didn’t work. it means anything. any “.

What could have been “The Sandman” by Neil Gaiman

In that Warner’s attempt to create a ‘The man of sand’, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who had just starred in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”, would give birth to Morpheus, also known as Dream or Dream. But due to creative differences, he eventually abandoned the project.

For Neil Gaiman, creating a two-hour film of “The Sandman” would not do justice to the long history of the graphic novel, given that the success of films like “Batman V Superman”, “Man of Steel” or “Wonder Woman ‘did not adhere. to what the author imagined of his work in cinema.

Now, Neil Gaiman has finally been able to find a way to adapt “The Sandman” on Netflix, just as George RR Martin did in the past, with his fantasy “A Song of Ice and Fire”, which would later become “The Thrones’ Game for HBO.