Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave the first update on The Sandman in several months, noting that the project is coming along slowly, but it looks like he is still committed to bringing Neil Gaiman’s vision to the big screen.
In an interview with MTV News at Spike TV’s Guys Choice Awards on Saturday, Gordon-Levitt said that the project is coming along “slow but steady.” The actor noted that Gaiman didn’t write The Sandman as one long story, but as several self-contained stories in each issue. “And to try to take that and make it into something that’s a feature film — a movie that has a beginning, middle, and end — is complicated,” he said.
Gordon-Levitt is working on the film with David Goyer, who also wrote Man of Steel and the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, along with Gaiman, who wrote the original Vertigo books. He further explained that the film will be very different from the typical comic book action movie.
“Big spectacular action movies are generally about crime fighters fighting crime and blowing sh-t up. This has nothing to do with that,” JGL said. “And it was actually one of the things that Neil Gaiman said to me, he said ‘Don’t have any punching.’ Because he never does. If you read the comics, Morpheus doesn’t punch anybody. That’s not what he does.”
The actor promised that the film will be “like a grand spectacular action film, but that relies on none of those same old ordinary cliches.”
Back in August 2014, Gordon-Levitt also said that The Sandman is a complicated project to adapt. “There's a reason people have been trying and failing to adapt Sandman for the past 20 years,” he told MovieFone at the time.
JGL will next be seen on the big screen in The Walk.
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