“Neil Gaiman Wants Terry Gilliam to Direct Sandman”
Why yes, and so would we
At the premiere for Stardust, Gaiman told Empire magazine that “I would always give anything to Terry Gilliam, forever, so if Terry Gilliam ever wants to do ‘Sandman’ then as far as I’m concerned Terry Gilliam should do ‘Sandman’,” said Gaiman. “But Terry’s busy trying to get ‘Good Omens’ made that Terry Pratchett and I wrote.”
10/6/07 at 1:09 pm
Star author unaware that suits make decisions in filmmaking, not the guy who created a property. I guess enough adulation from the fan community and one can believe in anything.
10/6/07 at 2:07 pm
What was the reaction to the Discworld movie last December? Why not replicate that, and save some money?
hmm. Howabout Ridley Scott for Sandman? He does a good job with adaptations, and has a good design sense.
10/6/07 at 11:44 pm
After seeing PAN’S LABYRINTH, I think Guillermo del Toro would be a much better pick. As much as I like Gilliam, he seems to have lost his way if that horrible BROTHERS GRIMM flick was any indication.
10/7/07 at 2:27 am
[…] Neil Gaiman Wants Terry Gilliam to Direct Sandman At the premiere for Stardust, Gaiman told Empire magazine that “I would always give anything to Terry Gilliam, forever, so if Terry Gilliam ever wants to do ‘Sandman’ then as far as I’m concerned Terry Gilliam should do ‘Sandman’,” said Gaim (tags: comics movies) […]
10/7/07 at 1:40 pm
Am I the only one who has ever thought that Sandman should be on HBO? A film can’t get everything the way a series could. This needs to be the way it’s done.
10/8/07 at 12:10 pm
I like the idea of it being an HBO series. HBO has shown that they can handle a complex concept on TV and I think that trying to get the great sweep of Sandman down to two hours would result in unbearable things.
10/8/07 at 3:54 pm
Neil Gaiman may want Terry Gilliam to direct Sandman, but I think that most people want somebody who is capable of telling a coherent story to direct Sandman.
So, of *course,* Gilliam is totally wrong for the movie.
I have to agree that Guillermo del Toro would be a great choice as director, but something tells me that his collaboration with Mignola on Hellboy has become so personal for him that he’s got enough on his plate with that franchise and his own other movies to spearhead another franchise.
Firefly/Serenity and Wonderfalls co-creator Tim Minear (also a High Priest in the Cult of Joss) has already shown that he has a great eye for both the serious and the surreal and has no fear of letting a scene go off on a tangent while being able to reel it back in when the story needs to move on. So I’m thinkin’ Tim Minear.
10/9/07 at 5:11 pm
[…] The Beat publica que en la premiere de Stardust en Europa, Neil Gaiman declaró “Si algún día Terry Gilliam quiere hacer Sandman, entonces hasta donde me concierne, Terry Gilliam va a hacer Sandman”. Terry Gilliam es quien actualmente está dirigiendo la adaptación al cine de “Good Omens”, novela co-escrita por Neil Gaiman junto con Terry Pratchet. Gaiman resaltó que esto es porque quiere que quiere que quién diriga la película la haga con amor a la serie, “tal como lo hizo Peter Jackson para El Señor de los Anillos o Sam Raimi en Spider-man.” Tambien dijo que preferiría que no hubiera una película de Sandman a que si la hubiera esta fuera una mala película. No es anuncio oficial ni parecido, pero es muy bueno saber que Gaiman está abierto a la posibilidad de que se haga una película con su obra maestra. […]