Huge breaking news this Sunday evening as The Hollywood Reporter writes that Neil Gaiman’s beloved Vertigo comic “Sandman” is finally coming to the screen!
The news comes three years after New Line’s failed attempt to turn the graphic novel into a feature film, and now Netflix has signed a massive financial deal with Warner Bros. Television to adapt the best-seller into a live-action TV series. The site’s sources tell them “it is the most expensive TV series that DC Entertainment has ever done.”
Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, ABC’s “The Catch”, “Grey’s Anatomy”) is set to write and serve as showrunner on the straight-to-series drama (this means there will be no pilot and they’re going straight into production). Gaiman, who created the ongoing monthly comic, will executive produce alongside David Goyer.
The “Sandman” series shifts between horror and fantasy, and the central character is Morpheus, the personification of dreams. After being held captive 70 years, Morpheus escapes, gains revenge and rebuilds his crumbling kingdom while trying to adapt to the times.
As the site notes, the Netflix take represents the first “Sandman” TV series after numerous efforts to adapt Gaiman’s horror, fantasy and mythology tale about Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, and the Endless, the powerful group of siblings that includes Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium (as well as Dream).
More soon.
