{"id":57336,"date":"2022-08-26T19:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/neil-gaiman-fended-off-bad-adaptions-by-force\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:17:55","slug":"neil-gaiman-fended-off-bad-adaptions-by-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/neil-gaiman-fended-off-bad-adaptions-by-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman Fended Off Bad Adaptions by Force"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ace The Sandman<\/em><\/span> <\/em>enjoys an astounding success on Netflix, Neil Gaiman has done an exceptionally in-depth interview with Rolling Stone<\/span>where he describes the arduous and sometimes underhanded methods it took to get the adaptation<\/span> made to his specifications. \u201cI spent 30-something years battling bad versions of Sandman<\/em><\/span>,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Gaiman describes an incident in 1996 when pulp Fiction<\/em> co-writer Roger Avary was slated to direct an adaptation. Avary apparently wanted to pursue a mixed-animation and live-action production, where the Dreaming would be stop-motion animated, taking inspiration from Jan \u0160vankmajer’s Alice<\/em>. \u201cSo he put on a screening of \u0160vankmajer’s Hawthorn<\/em>e for the Warner Movies top brass. And by the time he left the screening, he was fired from the project and his parking space name had been painted over. They were like, ‘This is madness. Get rid of him. This is not mainstream’.\u201d I think this might be considered an accidental sabotage.<\/p>\n

By far the most incredible sabotage that Gaiman was witness to, he was the architect of. Legendary film executive Jon Peters produced an \u201cinfamous\u201d script that Gaiman was given access to in the late ’90s that featured Dream, Lucifer, and the Corinthian as triplets attempting to find Dream’s tools before the turn of the millennium. Gaiman stated that he read \u201cas much of the script as I could take.\u201d When the producers asked if he had a chance to review the script he was, by his own admission, not as nice as he would like to be when giving feedback. Gaiman told him, \u201cThere was nothing in there I loved. There was nothing in there I liked. It was the worst script that I’ve ever read by anybody. It’s not just the worst Sandman <\/em>script That was the worst script I’ve ever been sent.\u201d <\/p>\n

In an attempt to prevent Peters’s script from being made, Gaiman turned to one of the most infamous, and popular, genre blogs of the time\u2014Ain’t It Cool News. \u201cI thought, I wonder what Ain’t It Cool News will think of the script that they’re going to receive anonymously. And they wrote a fabulous article about how it was the worst script they’d ever been sent. And suddenly the prospect of that movie happening went away. And instead Jon Peters turned his attention to Wild Wild West<\/em>\u201d Bullet, dodged. <\/p>\n

Read the full interview with Gaiman over at Rolling Stone<\/span>; The Sandman<\/em> is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n

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photo: Jeff Spicer \/ Stringer (Getty Images) ace The Sandman enjoys an astounding success on Netflix, Neil Gaiman has done an exceptionally in-depth interview with Rolling Stonewhere he describes the arduous and sometimes underhanded methods it took to get the adaptation made to his specifications. \u201cI spent 30-something years battling bad versions of Sandman,\u201d he …<\/p>\n

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