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Eric Heisserer Fired Himself From the ‘Sandman’ Adaptation
Eric Heisserer (The Thing, Lights Out, Van Helsing) conducted an AMA earlier today over on Reddit to promote the upcoming sci-fi/thriller Arrival and let slip a very interesting and quite admirable bit of information. He made it clear that he purposefully fired himself from the Sandman project, which he was attached to for a while, because he felt that it was meant to be a series and not a movie.
When asked if there’s any hope for Sandman, Heisserer replied, “I really hope so. I have been strongly advocating for it as a prestige TV series instead of a film, so I fired myself from the project because in my opinion it is built to become a series.”
The idea of adapting Neil Gaiman’s comic Sandman into a film began in the 90’s and has been attempted ever since. For a little while, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was attached as producer, director, and potential star but he left the project abruptly after it shifted from Warner Bros. to New Line Cinema. Gaiman himself commented on this sudden departure back in March.
There has been no other word on the project and its status. At this point, we’ll have to continue to believe its dead in the water until something tells us otherwise.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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