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“#Why \u2018The Sandman\u2019 Adaptation Could Only Happ<\/a>en Now, and Only First on Audio<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It seemed like an adaptation of\u00a0The Sandman<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was trapped in development hell for nearly as long as the titular personification of Dream was imprisoned by his captors in Neil Gaiman<\/strong>\u2018s acclaimed graphic novel series<\/a> (okay, that was 70 years, but the point still stands). Multiple attempts have been made to bring Gaiman\u2019s weird, fantastical world to the big screen, with Warner Bros. periodically planning adaptations throughout the \u201990s, and writers like\u00a0Roger Avary, David S. Goyer, Jack Thorne, and\u00a0Eric Heisserer coming and going, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt at one point set to take on the role of Morpheus. But all those attempts had fallen through, until it seemed like\u00a0The Sandman<\/em> was doomed to \u201cunadaptable\u201d status, like so many others.<\/p>\n

Then, along came a new decade and we have not one, but two\u00a0Sandman<\/em> adaptations on their way. But curiously, the first-ever adaptation of\u00a0The Sandman<\/em> wouldn\u2019t be a screen adaptation as fans had long expected, but an audio drama adaptation on Audible directed by renowned audio director, and frequent Gaiman collaborator,\u00a0Dirk Maggs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeil calls me the guy who goes in the minefield first,\u201d Maggs joked in a virtual roundtable press conference with \/Film. Maggs was the first to adapt\u00a0Good Omens<\/em>, which Gaiman co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, for audio, and had\u00a0dramatized the\u00a0radio play\u00a0Neverwhere<\/em>, based on Gaiman\u2019s TV series. Now he would be first through the gate for\u00a0The Sandman<\/em>, ahead of the currently in-the-works Netflix adaptation from\u00a0Wonder Woman\u00a0<\/em>screenwriter\u00a0Allan Heinberg<\/strong>. But Maggs is not worried about the Netflix adaptation, though when it was first announced he may have been.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna absolutely level with you. We finally got this underway, and then they announced the TV version,\u201d Maggs said, comparing the two adaptations, both of which Gaiman is involved in, to \u201cthat\u00a0moment where the Titanic leaves, if there\u2019s a little sailing boat in the way, the backwash and that thing just capsizes.\u201d But Maggs went back to rewrite the draft of the first episode and decided to stick to \u201cwhat Neil wrote originally.\u201d Maggs continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can do what they like with the other version because we are absolutely the motherlode Sandman<\/em>. And it\u2019s been the best experience ever because it stopped me from trying to be clever, instead I trust the author and that\u2019s been the best part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But why now? Why did it happen on audio first? For Gaiman, who spoke about actually fielding those early requests to be involved in a\u00a0Sandman<\/em> movie, only to say no (\u201cI remember the Warners exec, Lisa Henson, looking at me very puzzled and saying nobody\u2019s ever come into my office and asked me not to make a movie before\u201d), the Audible audio drama was a perfect storm of elements.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou needed somebody like Dirk Maggs, you needed something like, Audible, about who were very willing,\u201d Gaiman told us in a virtual roundtable. \u201cYou know, Dirk and I have been willing to do something like this and talked about it since 1992. But you needed Audible to have actually gone from a model where they just putting out audio books to the point where they\u2019re discovering that actually full cast adaptations, people love these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hurdles that come with adapting\u00a0Sandman<\/em> are how film and movie adaptations, until now, \u201cneeded to go into very clearcut boxes,\u201d Gaiman said. \u201cAnd Sandman<\/em> was always something that I overflowed its boxes and became its own thing. I think it\u2019s so interesting that we\u2019re now at a point where we can make it.\u201d He continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have tried making Sandman<\/em> movies and TV adaptations for 30 years, and actively tried making them for 25 years. And they\u2019ve never worked. And they never worked because of special effects and what would have needed to do the special effects. They never worked because you were making something that was adult. And at a time when people would write Sandman<\/em> movie scripts, and they go, but it\u2019s an R rated movie, and we can\u2019t have 100 million dollar R rated movie back then, so wouldn\u2019t happen. You needed to get to a world in which longform storytelling is an advantage rather than a disadvantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With audio, \u201cwe can do an awful lot for a lot less money and a lot less people than you can do for any picture project,\u201d Maggs added. \u201cIt\u2019s a very flexible medium, not only for the listener, but also for us as creatives. The trick is, the skill is in making it so that you are lost in it and you don\u2019t suddenly are jarred by something that really doesn\u2019t explain itself well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaiman takes a major role in the Audible adaptation of\u00a0Sandman<\/em>, acting as narrator in addition to providing Maggs with background information and access to his original scripts for the comics, but he was noticeably excited to speak about the Netflix series during our roundtable. The Netflix series is still a ways away, but Gaiman is already immersed in the world of the\u00a0Sandman<\/em> and seeing it visualized by Heinberg and his team for the small screen has got him acting positively giddy:<\/p>\n

\u201cI get these emails of production design stuff on Netflix\u2019s Sandman<\/em>, and I just want to show them to everybody and I know that I can\u2019t, they\u2019re incredibly confidential. But I look at them and I glow. The other day they sent me Lucifer\u2019s Castle and the Gates to Hell and all of these Hell designs and I\u2019m just like this is amazing!<\/em> It\u2019s like watching Kelly Jones\u2019 nightmares and Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg\u2019s nightmares just coming to life. We couldn\u2019t have done that even five years ago. Definitely not 10 years ago. The technology<\/a> wasn\u2019t there, the budget wasn\u2019t there, the audience wasn\u2019t there, the delivery systems weren\u2019t there. The idea of spending and going off doing Preludes and Nocturnes<\/em> and The Doll\u2019s House<\/em> as our first 10 episodes, nobody would\u2019ve let us do that. The world wasn\u2019t ready. It caught up with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Sandman<\/em>\u00a0is now available to purchase on Audible.<\/p>\n

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