It has been awhile since we heard
anything from Joseph Gordon-Levitt's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fan-favorite
Sandman series, but this past Saturday while at the Spike TV’s Guys
Choice Awards in Culver City, California, the actor/writer/producer offered
some insight about the ongoing adaptation.
It’s really good, man. It’s slow but steady.
It’s a really complicated adaptation because those comics, they’re brilliant.
But they’re not written as a whole. It’s not like ‘Watchmen,’ which is a
graphic novel that has a beginning, middle, and end. ‘Sandman’ was written over
the course of whatever — I forget exactly, six or seven years. One at a time.
One little 20-page issue at a time. 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.
Gordon-Levitt refused to give way
which of the "20-page issues he was adapting from", but he did
however caution that though big and spectacular, there won't be any punching or
explosions.
Big spectacular action movies are generally about
crime fighters fighting crime and blowing sh-t up. This has nothing to do with
that. 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. It’s
going to be like a grand spectacular action film, but that relies on none of
those same old ordinary clichés. So, that’s why it’s taking a lot time to
write, but it’s going to be really good.
It was reported some time ago that
Warner Bros. liked the first draft of the script, but by the looks of things
Sandman is still a long way away, with JGL, Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Jack
Thorne still working on the script.
Source - MTV
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