Joseph Gordon-Levitt Says ‘Sandman’ Movie Progress Is ‘Slow But Steady’

The filmmaker calls the project based on a Neil Gaiman comic book series “complicated”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Getty); Sandman (Vertigo)
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt said that progress on the big screen adaptation of the comic series “The Sandman” is progressing at a “slow but steady” pace.

“It’s a really complicated adaptation because those comics, they’re brilliant,” Gordon-Levitt said in an interview with MTVย atย Spike’s Guy’s Choice Awards on Sunday. “But they’re not written as a whole. It’s not like ‘Watchmen,’ which is a graphic novel that has a beginning, middle, and end.”

“‘Sandman’ was written over the course of –whatever, I forget exactly — six or seven years,” he continued. “One at a time. One little 20-page issue at a time.

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