The Sandman
Actor / movie maker Joseph Gordon - Levitt has clear been seize with teeth by the comic book movie bug . He played the Christopher Nolan interlingual rendition of Robin inThe Dark Knight Risesand will star in next year ’s Frank Miller comic adaptationSin City : A Dame to vote out For . Most recently , the formerThird Rock from the Sunchild star has been linked to a film variant of Vertigo’sThe Sandmancomic volume / pictorial novel series from Warner Bros. and DC ( note : Vertigo is an imprint of DC ) .
antecedently , rumor had it that David S. Goyer - thenewly - constitute ( unofficial ) architectof the bud DC Cinematic Universe - pitched a version of aSandmanmovie that impressed WB studio heads , in addition tohaving caught Levitt ’s eye(as a likely starring vehicle for him ) .
NowDeadlineis report that Levitt is finalizing a deal to produce theSandmancomic adaptation , with the intention of not only starring as the King of Dreams - but , possibly , calculate the film to boot . Levitt , for those who ’ve forgotten ( and/or did n’t hear ) , made the jump to filmmaker this year , when his wrote , directedandstarred in the self-governing productionDon Jon , which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , before getting peck up and free in theaters this past fall .
The Sandmanwas author by Neil Gaiman ( American Gods , Coraline ) and introduce reviewer to Morpheus , a.k.a . Dream : the personification of all dream and write up , who spends 70 years trapped in magical confinement after a radical of occultist capture him , having mistake him for his sis , Death .
After he breaks free of his enchanted prison house , Dream get himself a stranger making his room through the unholy land that is the advanced - day world - with his onetime gorgeously dark and ethereal kingdom having fall into disrepair and chaos in his absence - storm Morpheus to either change his ways and atone for his fault in the yesteryear … or die , as only he and his kin ( The Endless ) can .
There have been a handful of endeavor to adapt Gaiman’sSandmanliterature - arguably , his comic magnum opus - to the small cover , but those previous endeavour have always resulted in failure . More recently , DC President Diane Nelson drop hints aboutaSandmanmovie being on the room , even before rumors of Levitt ’s participation set about to come along .
WhileDon Jonis a very unlike kind of genre movie than aSandmanadaptation , the picture show - dear it , detest it or something in between ( read our review ) - has established Levitt as not only a theatre director with a voice that is already pretty clear ( though , obviously still recrudesce ) , but also as a storyteller with ambition and purpose .
honestly , that ’s exactly the sort of natural endowment you could require to undertake Gaiman ’s comic source stuff : a film maker willing to make a mirthful Scripture picture as daring , gamey - given and poetic as the lit that inspired it ( i.e. a provocative mixture that intermix element of Kirbian fantasy , surreal horror , dark drollery , subversive mythology and poignant human dramatic event ) .
The search is currently on to find a writer to hand theSandmanadaptation , presumptively based on Goyer ’s pitch . There ’s no parole yet on the product timeline for the project , but with reports circulating that WB / DC willsignificantly increase their outputduring the upcoming years - with more niche and cult risible property ( likeSandman ) being conform to film at a greater absolute frequency - we could see Levitt ’s Gaiman picture show take big steps forrard in the ( years ? month ? ) out front .
Are you intrigued by the idea ofThe Sandmanas a movie , starring and directed by Joseph Gordon - Levitt ?
beginning : Deadline
