Rumors are spreading that Warner Bros. might be ready to start developing a film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's popular graphic novel series The Sandman.
According to MTV, the website Badass Digest is reporting that Warner Bros. might be interested in possibly finally moving forward of Gaiman's work.
MTV also talked to Gaiman last week, who seemed in good spirits about the possibility of a film version finally coming to pass. The Coraline writer said, "What tended to happen a lot in the '90s was the point where Warner [Bros.] would get relatively close to making a 'Sandman' movie, and then somebody would get realistic about the fact that the film would not be PG-13."
He continued, "And it that it would be incredibly big and expensive and it would never really be made or the sequence of films that you would need to make 'Sandman' would never get made. I think things like the 'Dark Knight' films kind of changed that."
Gaiman noted that executives back then didn't really know what Sandman was, but the junior executives getting him water did. "The nervous juniors who would bring me the bottles of water when I arrive, and would get me to sign their comics on the way out -- they knew. They are now running the studios."
HitFix reports that the source talking to Badass Digest said that David S. Goyer was interested in the series and wanted Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star.
The Man of Steel writer reportedly pitched Warner Bros. about the project and DC Comics' Geoff John was supposedly interested.
image: Amazon