When you’ve waited 30 years for something to hit Hollywood’s big time, you’re not just going to jump on whatever’s given to you – that’s one of the things that has made it successful today The sand man series on Netflix if valid.
As Neil Gaiman once said, of the many failed incarnations that preceded Netflix’s current success: “All of them failed because trying to turn 3,000 pages into a two-hour movie is frankly going to fail.”
However, this one was different. “When we did our pitch, they were saying the only selling point we have is that we have Neil Gaman, and none of the previous adaptations have,” Gaiman said, and the fact that it’s now the biggest show in the world proves it. .
Talk to rolling stone, Gaiman even claims that he once intentionally leaked a script. “I haven’t read this whole script, [but] I read as much of the script as I could,” he said of the draft that producer Jon Peters sent him.
Adding: “And I don’t know if it would have been an action movie or quite what it would have been. It was a mess. It was never better than a mess. It contained mechanical spiders giantess.
Further explaining how mutated his beloved creation had become: “Lucifer, Morpheus and the Corinthian were identical triplets. They were a family of identical brothers, and it was a race to see who could get the ruby, the bar and the sandbag before midnight in 1999, before the start of the new millennium, because whoever got it would be the winner. . ”
When Peters approached him for his verdict, he was told bluntly, “This is the worst script I’ve ever read. It’s not just the worst Sand seller script. This is the worst scenario anyone has ever sent me.
However, he remained disturbed that Peters might still want to do it from a business perspective, so Gaiman apparently sent him anonymously to Isn’t it cool, and “they wrote a fabulous article about it being the worst case scenario anyone ever sent them. And suddenly, the prospect of this film happening was gone.
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