Neil Gaiman Killed An Awful Sandman Movie By Leaking The Script
In the 1990s, a film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman was canceled after its script leaked online. This week, Gaiman let slip that he was the one who leaked the script, and he did it on purpose.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, prolific fantasy author Gaiman said that the script for the 1990s film adaptation of The Sandman “was the worst script that I’ve ever read by anybody,” and that he couldn't even get through the whole thing. After receiving a copy from producer Jon Peters, Gaiman sent it anonymously to the online news site Ain't It Cool News in the hopes that the leak would sabotage the production. Indeed, the site “wrote a fabulous article about how it was the worst script they’d ever been sent. And suddenly the prospect of that film happening went away.”
The Sandman Review
Gaiman recalled the initial conversation he had about the Sandman adaptation with Peters''assistant over the phone. “A guy in Jon Peters’ office phoned me up and he said, 'So Neil, have you had a chance to read the script we sent you?' And I said, 'Well, yes. Yes, I did. I haven’t read all of it, but I’ve read enough.' He says, 'So, pretty good. Huh?' And I said, 'Well, no. It really isn’t.' He said, 'Oh, come on. There must have been stuff in there you loved,'" Gaiman recalled. «I said, 'There was nothing in there I loved. There was nothing in there I liked. It was the worst script that I’ve ever read by anybody. It’s not just the worst Sandman script. That was the worst script I’ve ever been sent.' And then there was a pause. He says, 'Oh, come on. That thing where we made the Corinthian the Sandman’s brother, that was good. Huh?' And I said, 'No, that was really stupid.' And he said, 'Oh, well, OK. You can’t win them
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