Sandman Producer Hopes To Start Filming Next Year

In the line of upcoming DC movies none is more difficult to translate to the big screen than perhaps the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's great Vertigo Comics series, The Sandman, which is being spearheaded by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Speaking to Collider, producer David Goyer seems confident that with the advent of a new writer, the project, which currently calls New Line, Warner Bros. sister company, home, will go into production in 2016.

We’re just about to do a new draft. All of the Vertigo properties ported over to New Line a few months ago. There was a decision from the higher-ups that New Line would focus on the Vertigo properties and Warner Bros would focus on the DC properties. So we’re just starting a re-write with a really fantastic writer that fans of your site will enjoy that’s coming aboard, but I can’t quite announce it yet.

I think that the Vertigo properties are a bit more quirky and off-center than kind of the mainstream superhero stuff at Warners. But I understand the decision because we’re not having to fight for release dates with the Vertigo stuff like we would have been having to do over at Warner Bros. But I feel confident that film will go into production hopefully next year.

Gaiman's Sandman is a 75-issue series, which is why some would prefer to see it not turn into a movie but a TV show instead, however, considering the amount of dream-like effects needed to make the comic series justice (besides script, cast, and director), I maintain that the only way to adapt Sandman is on a movie budget. And yes, The Flash and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have great effects…for TV.

Source - Collider

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