After many years of wishing everyone would hurry up and put Neil Gaiman's excellent Sandman books out there as a movie, I've now decided that it would probably just upset me and most other folks who have their own Sandman vision in their heads. It's funny how with books you'd expect this concern, but with Sandman being a comic you might think they'd be no issues - but having seen a few comic conversions recently I've realised how much editing they'd have to do and the story is the thing. So I'm happy not to hear of any Sandman movie news. Ever.

That said I'm always happy to hear of more Gaiman related movie news when I'm not so emotionally invested in the books. I loved Stardust, I'm much more tempted to go see Beowulf now I've found out Gaiman worked on the script and soon we can see Coraline - an adaptation of one of his wonderful children's books.

What I'd really love to see out of Sandman is a stand-alone movie, penned by Gaiman and using the characters without impacting the main storyline. That would be awesome.

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