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Logan director James Mangold reveals why HBO’s Sandman adaptation was cancelled

June 11, 2020 by Samuel Brace

James Mangold reveals why his HBO adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic The Sandman never happened.

Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic is a much-respected series with a lot of deep themes and fascinating lore. It is currently being adapted as a TV series over at Netflix but at one time, Logan director James Mangold was going to make a show at HBO.

What happened? Well, according to Mangold, internal politics with Warner Bros. got in the way. Speaking to Discussing Film, he said:

“It’s no secret that I was trying to pull together a version of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman. I pitched it to HBO years ago and they bought the pitch as a long form series and then it got undone by a political turf war at WB. Regardless, now it’s happening and I am so happy for Neil who I think is a marvellous person as well as a supremely brilliant artist. His unique vision weaves the psychological, psychedelic, romantic, sexual and fantastical in a way that is both personal and epic.”

SEE ALSO: Neil Gaiman gives an update on Netflix’s The Sandman adaptation

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Filed Under: Movies, News, Samuel Brace Tagged With: DC, James Mangold, The Sandman

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