To celebrate the fact
that the second season of hitRECORD on TV is airing, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who
helps write and produce the show took to Reddit for an AMA (Ask Me Anything).
During the "event" some fans asked him about the long awaited
adaptation of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel, Sandman, which he is writing,
producing, and maybe directing and starring in.
First off, Levitt was
asked if given the episodic nature of comics, and graphic novels, it shouldn't
be better to adapt Sandman to the small screen?
"I think a big
screen adaptation is a better idea and here's why. If you did the episodic
version, I think it could very well end up as a not-as-good-version of what is
already brilliant in the comics," Gordon-Levitt said. "But by
reworking the material into a big movie, Gaiman's brilliant characters and
ideas get to take shape in a way they never have before. Also, I think Sandman deserves
to look absolutely mind-blowingly awesome, just on a visual level, and as
cinematic as some tv shows are becoming these days, they still can't compete
with big movies visually, just because they can't afford to."
One of the main problems in adapting Sandman to any medium is that the
storyline sometimes goes on tangents leaving Morpheus, the central character of
the story behind, which means that fans of the series should brace themselves
for the fact that while somethings will be incorporated, others won't.
"Yeah, there's
tons of little brilliant moments throughout the series, and we certainly can't
incorporate all of them," the actor said when asked about the possibility
of weaving in some elements from Sandman Volume 5, A Game of You. "We are
using a whole bunch of specifics straight from the comics, but of course, we're
also having to do a certain amount of invention, and in between that, there's
tons of re-appropriating, re-contextualizing, combining, consolidating, and all
manner of things that literalists might not like. But what we try to be
completely faithful about is the overall sentiment: that Dreams and Stories and
Magic are actually all the same thing, and that they're real, and that they're
powerful."
Sandman isn't part of
Warner Bros. DC slate, and doesn't have release date yet schedule.
Source - Reddit
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