Gaiman

A v good John Constantine cosplayScreenshot: The CWLast Friday, Rolling Stone released a feature on Neil Gaiman, an impressively extensive interview that covered the author’s storied career, starting in the ‘80s, when a then-26-year-old Gaiman began writing The Sandman for Vertigo comics. During the interview, he related how he succeeded in an attempt to tank a Jon Peters adaptation of the comic. What wasn’t mentioned in the article was that The Sandman was also optioned by Eric Kripke as a network television adaption. I…

Photo: Jeff Spicer / Stringer (Getty Images)As The Sandman enjoys an astounding success on Netflix, Neil Gaiman has done an exceptionally in-depth interview with Rolling Stone, where he describes the arduous and sometimes underhanded methods it took to get the adaption made to his specifications. “I spent 30-something years battling bad versions of Sandman,” he said. Gaiman describes an incident in 1996 when Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary was slated to direct an adaption. Avary apparently wanted to pursue a…

Apart from John Dee's looks and status as a DC supervillain, there's one significant difference between the comic book version and the show one. In the comics, Dee gets a ride from a friendly driver called Rosemary who, thanks to Dee's penchant for always telling the truth, soon finds out what a dangerous person she's riding with. Regardless, she ends up helping Dee ... only for the villain to ruthlessly shoot her after they're at the destination. The Netflix version of Rosemary ("Ted Lasso" star Sarah…

Stardust turns 15 years old today.Image: ParamountAs I sat down to revisit Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel Stardust, a family friend who was visiting asked me a question. “What are you watching?” “Stardust.” “What’s that?” “This fantasy movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro.” “I’ve never heard of it.” “Henry Cavill is also in it and he fights Daredevil.” “Ben Affleck?”I found the conversation funny but also incredibly telling. That this friend didn’t know Stardust was not some anomaly. The…

A crop of the cover of The Graveyard Book graphic novel adaptation.Image: Quill Tree BooksThe company behind the Haunted Mansion is getting ready to tell another tale of ghosts and goblins. Disney has just hired director Marc Forster (Christopher Robin) to direct The Graveyard Book, a film based on the award-winning novel by Neil Gaiman.The Graveyard Book was released in 2008 and, according to Amazon, is “the only work ever to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) medals.” It follows a young boy named Nobody Owens,…

As teased in the announcement for the upcoming Miracleman #0 one-shot, the wait is finally over! Today Marvel announced that writer Neil Gaiman and artist Mark Buckingham will return to Miracleman to complete their unfinished “The Silver Age” storyline, a tale literally decades in the making, this October! Also back for the ride are colorist D’Israeli and letterer Todd Klein. Here’s how the publisher describes the series: Young Miracleman — the lost member of the Miracleman Family — is back! His last memories were of a…

| They promised it years ago. They teased it in Timeless #1. And now, for September, Marvel Comics has announced a brace of Miracleman variant covers across Marvel titles for September 2022. This suggests the long-promised The Silver Age by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham will be republished by Marvel, continued and concluded through the end of 2022 and into 2023. And then, maybe, you never know, the long-planned conclusion, Miracleman: The Dark Age. Thirty years on, it is actually happening… This year, Marvel Comics…