Despite the fact that Farmer hadn’t read all of the Sandman comics (and found what he had read to be “undisciplined”), he was handed the gig – which he was promptly instructed to turn into a Terminator 2 rip-off in which Morpheus is the villain. According to Farmer: “The goal of the project was to take the Sandman name and use it as a franchise while making the actual story something more ‘for the masses.’” He was also instructed to include a scene where Morpheus inexplicably visits a rave. You know, for the kids.
More recently, there were plans to make a Sandman movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which also fell through after Gordon-Levitt and several screenwriters exited the project, ultimately paving the way for this new Netflix iteration – which is hopefully a real show and not secretly a coma dream. In which case, you need better unconscious hospital fantasies, buddy.
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