On his blog, Neil Gaiman reacts to word that Batman & Robin director Joel Schumacher would like a stab at a Sandman movie:
I remember about eight years ago the then Warner Brothers co-studio head Billy Gerber told me that he got weekly calls from people who wanted to make, direct or star in a Sandman film. “On Wednesday,” he said, “Michael Jackson called about it.” Given the comments some months ago from Alan Horn and Jeff Robinoff, who now run Warner Brothers, I don’t believe the calls from people who want to make Sandman have decreased in the last eight years — quite the reverse. Which I mention because I got a small deluge of letters from people asking me what I thought about Joel Shumacher saying in an interview that he’d love to direct a Sandman film and wondering if that meant that it was now about to happen, and of course it doesn’t and it isn’t. It simply puts Mr Schumacher in a very long line of people who want to make Sandman, some way ahead of Michael Jackson.
Is it wrong that I would like to have seen Jackson as Dream? Mind you, not in the actual movie; that would be awful. Just a test scene or something that would make its way on to YouTube.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
For a moment I thought you were going to say you wanted to see a screen test of Michael Jackson as Desire…
February 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Michael Jackson as a thin, pale, asexual, lightly-speaking nether-being? I just can’t see it.
February 10th, 2007 at 2:01 am
“Given the comments some months ago from Alan Horn and Jeff Robinoff, who now run Warner Brothers, I don’t believe the calls from people who want to make Sandman have decreased in the last eight years — quite the reverse. Which I mention because I got a small deluge of letters from people asking me what I thought about Joel Shumacher saying in an interview that he’d love to direct a Sandman film and wondering if that meant that it was now about to happen, and of course it doesn’t and it isn’t. It simply puts Mr Schumacher in a very long line of people who want to make Sandman, some way ahead of Michael Jackson. ”
At the very least, it’s good to know Sandman is such a hot property and has been that way for years.
February 10th, 2007 at 2:01 am
“Is it wrong that I would like to have seen Jackson as Dream? Mind you, not in the actual movie; that would be awful. Just a test scene or something that would make its way on to YouTube. ”
Ditto.