It’s been over a year since the news that Netflix would present a live adaptation of Sandman Comics with DC and Warner Bros.TV, and we’ve heard very little about the screen since then. However, Sandman series author Nail Gaiman gave a rare on-screen update at the DC FanDome event.
Discussing Sandman’s adaptations that have been made or attempted over the years, adding the audible editing of well-received drama that was released this year, Gaiman discussed the Netflix adaptation along the way, confirming that it is in fact still in progress, despite the lack of novelties. This alone was pleasant to hear, given the number of movie releases and productions that were stopped or delayed due to COVID-19, not to mention television systems whose schedules were interrupted by the pandemic.
But Gaiman shared more details: he went on to say that the audio drama, which NPR called “rigorously faithful” to the original books, the Netflix edition will be “a little more flexible, but still faithful.”
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Later, during Sandman’s panel, Gaiman continued, “We took credit for the [COVID-19] break button only to verify that the scripts get as close as possible to perfection,” the writer said. “At this point, when the universal pause button starts to turn off, the transmission starts again, the transmission starts. I get those glorious and inspiring emails with production designs, with options I’d only noticed in the comics before. it’s made in 3D, and I’m asked to comment, and it’s amazing.
“What we’re doing with Netflix is saying, ‘Okay, it’s going to start in 1916, but what’s happening in Sandman 1, the point where the story begins, it’s rarely very 1988, it’s now.’ And how does that replace the story? What does that give us? What compels us to look that we wouldn’t have had to look at if we had explained it as a character? What’s that going to do? The character genre Array .. The nature of the characters? He added that it is “an absolute pleasure” to look at the tale and the characters with a new softness, while still being faithful to the original curtains he wrote.
And that’s what we know. It’s simple to assume that without COVID, we probably would have heard more extensive news about the Netflix Sandman adaptation now. Unfortunately, all we know now is what comes with the original report in 2019: it’s a joint production between Netflix, DC and Warner Bros.TV; the displayrunner at the time would be Allan Heinberg, who co-wrote Wonder Woman in 2017; Gaiman will produce executives, along with DC veteran David Goyer, whose credits come with the co-writing of the Batman films of Man of Steel and Christopher Nolan, as well as the television screen Krypton; and it will supposedly be the most expensive DC display ever produced.
This article was originally published on the sister site of TV Guide, Gamespot.com
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