The Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment-produced "The Sandman" live-action TV series was finally launched, as per Variety. It was ordered to series at Netflix in June 2019.
"The Sandman" was released in the streaming platform on August 5 and now its enjoying an astounding success. But prior it, Neil Gaiman "spent 30-something years battling bad versions of Sandman" according to his interview with the Rolling Stone.
Gaiman Fends Off Some Attempts to Make Bad Adaptation of 'The Sandman' Series
According to Gaiman, in 1996, Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary was opted to direct an adaption. What Avary had in mind was a mixed-animation and live-action production.
Drawing inspiration from Jan Švankmajer's Alice, the Dreaming would be a stop-motion animated in Avary's concept.
However, according to Gaiman, Avary showed Švankmajer's Alice to the Warner Movies executives, and it didn't go well as he was fired from the project.
There was also the case of a bad script, a sabotage that Gaiman himself orchestrated, as per Gizmodo.
According to the author, in the late 90's, the legendary film executive Jon Peters produced an "infamous" script that Gaiman was given access to.
Dream, Lucifer, and the Corinthian were featured in the script as triplets trying to find Dream's tools before the turn of the millennium.
According to Gaiman, he read "as much of the script as I could take." The producers asked him if he had a chance to review the script, and Gaiman described it as "the worst script I've ever been sent."
Therefore, trying to prevent Peter's script from being made, Gaiman turned to Ain't It Cool News one of the most infamous, and popular, genre blogs of the time.
The author said that the blog wrote a "fabulous article about how it was the worst script they'd ever been sent."
With what happened, the prospect of turning that script into film went away.
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Gaiman Says They are Hopeful for Another Season
"The Sandman" is number one in many countries. But despite of its astounding success, it is not certain that the show is being renewed for another season, as of writing.
According to Gaiman, making the series is not cheap. In fact, "The Sandman" is very expensive. Thus, in order to be renewed, they have to perform really good. He said that it's all looking great and everybody is hopeful.
The author said that last week, viewers spent 127 million hours watching Sandman. The next-most-watched thing was watched for around 65 million hours. This, according to Gaiman, indicates that the show is doing well.
In the interview with Rolling Stone, Gaiman noted that if Netflix will not be renewing "The Sandman," they could potentially bring it to another streamer.
According to Gaiman, when they put the deal together, they ensure that there would be "ways" to continue with "The Sandman."
But he said that they all hoped that none of these "ways" would possibly be necessary, since according to the author, they love the Netflix people and these people love "The Sandman" team in return.
Gaiman claimed that Netflix has been amazing, particularly since the streaming service created a secret 11th episode of "The Sandman."
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