Joseph Gordon-Levitt on SANDMAN Being “Mind-Blowingly Awesome”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt took part in a Reddit AMA this last weekend, and he used the opportunity to to give another update on his big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman.
He’s talked about how the development of the film has been going in the past, but in these latest statements, he lets his excitement for the project shine. He talks about why he thinks the adaptation will work better as a film rather than a TV series and what he hopes to accomplish. Here’s what he said:
"I think a big screen adaptation is a better idea and here’s why. If you did the episodic version, I think it could very well end up as a not-as-good-version of what is already brilliant in the comics. But by reworking the material into a big movie, Gaiman’s brilliant characters and ideas get to take shape in a way they never have before."
"Also, I think Sandman deserves to look absolutely mind-blowingly awesome, just on a visual level, and as cinematic as some TV shows are becoming these days, they still can’t compete with big movies visually, just because they can’t afford to.
"There’s tons of little brilliant moments throughout the series, and we certainly can’t incorporate all of them. We are using a whole bunch of specifics straight from the comics, but of course, we’re also having to do a certain amount of invention, and in between that, there’s tons of re-appropriating, re-contextualizing, combining, consolidating, and all manner of things that literalists might not like. But what we try to be completely faithful about is the overall sentiment: that dreams and stories and magic are actually all the same thing, and that they’re real, and that they’re powerful."
Gordon-Levitt is currently working on the script with David S. Goyer and Jack Thorne. Gaiman has also had a very heavy hand in developing the project with the team to make sure the fans get everything they want out of this project.
I think Gordon-Levitt has the talent to do something great with this, and it seems like he’s surrounded himself with the right people to help in the process of bringing this character and story life in the best way possible.