Recent rumours suggest that writer-producer
Eric Kripke (Supernatural) is being considered to mastermind a TV adaptation of
Neil Gaiman's seminal comic-book Sandman, now that Warner Bros TV are chasing the rights from their sister company DC Entertainment. Sandman has been stuck in development hell for many years, once close to becoming a HBO TV series courtesy of
James Mangold (Identity, 3:10 To Yuma), with Gaiman himself involved in its development. There have also been reports that
Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, Kick-Ass) is keen to adapt Sandman into a big-budget movie, despite popular feeling that the long-form TV format is best-suited to the source material. A widespread opinion similarly held for the Watchman adaptation, itself once stuck in development hell until Zack Snyder eventually turned it into a movie (with mixed success). For the uninitiated, Sandman was a 75-issue critically-acclaimed comic-book serial that ran from 1989 till 1996, focusing on the anthropomorphic character of Dream (aka Morpheus); a deity summoned and captured by occultists, then imprisoned for 70 years, before escaping into the modern-day to plot his revenge and rebuild his dilapidated kingdom. Are you keen to see Sandman make it to the small-screen? Is Kripke the man for the job? Do you agree that Sandman would make a better TV series than it would a movie? Or does the material scream out for a visionary filmmaker's touch?