Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Working on the Movie for Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman'

Joseph Gordon-Levitt announced Monday night that he will be working with Warner Bros., David Goyer and Neil Gaiman to bring The Sandman to life as film.

One of the first indications of this project’s existence we may have had was from Diane Nelson herself, shortly before San Diego Comic Con, when she mentioned that The Sandman was a top priority to get a movie adaptation. JGL hashtagged his announcing tweet #Prelude, a reference, as Gordon-Levitt appears to have acknowledged, to Preludes and Nocturnes, the title of the first story arc of The Sandman. Despite, or perhaps because of, Badass Digest rumors from “trusted sources” that Gordon-Levitt is in talks to star as the mercurial Dream Lord, JGL issued a second tweet to say that right now he was signed on as a producer, and “the rest remains to be seen.” Neil Gaiman, creator of Read more...