

Joseph Gordon-Levitt talked to Josh Horowitz for MTV News (watch the clip below) at the Spike Guy’s Choice Awards on Sunday, and he talked a little bit about the SANDMAN flick he and David Goyer have been cooking up:

”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. I’m feeling really good about it, but it’s a process. Please be patient! To be honest, I was just working all day on it today, and it’s just so much fun.

Here’s what I’m excited about: 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 him punch anybody.’ 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 cliches. So, that’s why it’s taking a lot time to write, but it’s going to be really good.”

Well, it certainly seems like his heart is in the right place. Let’s hope he does Gaiman’s vision justice.

We’ll probably see SANDMAN on the big screen no sooner than Summer 2017.

-Vinyard

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