The Sandman had a long road to its live-action adaptation, including a planned version that at one point would've starred and been directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Now, 33 years, 11 novels, and a number of other hit comics and literary works later, Gaiman is considered arguably the greatest living fantasy writer we have.Īnd if you're a writer lucky enough to make something considered a modern classic, you're almost always going to get something else: people wanting to adapt it for the screen. But The Sandman- which would eventually run for 75 issues, spawn its own universe, and become one of the most heralded comic works of all time-changed all of that. All he'd had to his name was scattered nonfiction work, a few short stories, a handful of comics published in the UK, and a three-issue Black Orchid series for DC. When the first issue of DC Comics' The Sandman was released back in January 1989, English writer Neil Gaiman-at the time not even 30 years old-was at the very start of his career.
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