It has been over a yr since news arrived that Netflix was reportedly creating a live-action Sandman comics adaptation with DC and Warner Bros. TV, and we have heard little or no in regards to the present since then. Nevertheless, Sandman collection creator Nail Gaiman gave a uncommon replace on the present throughout DC’s FanDome occasion.
When discussing the assorted Sandman diversifications which were made or tried over the years–including the well-received Audible drama model that got here out this year–Gaiman talked about the Netflix adaptation in passing, confirming that it is certainly nonetheless within the works, regardless of the dearth of stories. That alone was nice to listen to, given what number of films’ releases and productions have been shut down or delayed due to COVID-19, to not point out the TV exhibits whose schedules have been upended by the pandemic.
However Gaiman shared extra particulars: He went on to say that, not like the audio drama, which NPR known as “rigidly devoted” to the unique books, the Netflix model shall be “barely looser, however nonetheless devoted.”
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Later throughout the Sandman panel, Gaiman continued: “We have taken benefit of [the COVID-19] pause button simply to attempt to get the scripts as near excellent as attainable,” the creator mentioned. “Proper now, because the common pause button is beginning to come off, we’re beginning to forged once more, we’re starting–I am getting these inspiring and great emails with manufacturing designs, with locations that I’ve solely ever seen within the comics prior to now being rendered in 3D, and I am being requested to touch upon it, and that is superb.
“What we’re doing with Netflix is saying, ‘OK, It is nonetheless going to start out in 1916, however the factor that occurs in Sandman 1–the level the story starts–is not 1988, it is now.’ And the way does that change the story? What does that give us? what does that make us have to take a look at that we would not have had to take a look at if we have been setting it as a personality piece? What’s that going to do to the gender of characters…the character of characters?” He added that it has been “an absolute delight” to look at the story and characters in a brand new mild whereas staying devoted to the supply materials he wrote.
And that is what we all know. It is easy to imagine that, have been it not for COVID, we doubtless would have heard extra substantial information about Netflix’s Sandman adaptation by now. Sadly, all we at present know is what was included within the authentic report in 2019: It is a joint manufacturing between Netflix, DC, and Warner Bros. TV; the showrunner on the time was mentioned to be Allan Heinberg, who co-wrote 2017’s Surprise Lady; Gaiman will govt produce, alongside DC veteran David Goyer, whose credit embrace co-writing Man of Metal and Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, in addition to the TV present Krypton; and it’ll allegedly be the costliest DC present ever produced.
This article was originally posted on TV Guide sister site, Gamespot.com