Neil Gaiman wants Tom Hiddleston for the Sandman movie adaptation.
The Sandman movie adaptation gets exciting news, and it comes straight from the creator of the DC graphic novels himself. Neil Gaiman is eyeing Tom Hiddleston to wear the Sandman cloak.
David Goyer and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are adapting The Sandman graphic novels of DC Vertigo on film; the project is in very early stages, but a handful of actors are already being considered to take on the role of Sandman, also called Morpheus.
Gaiman is hands-on in the selection, it seems. In an interview with radiotimes.com, he comments on his very short list of actors.
"It's a funny thing with Morpheus. Again, it's that thing where you look around and think, 'Yes this person would be a fantastic person', and then time passes. There was a time Johnny Depp would've been a great Morpheus, but now he's too old and it's fine. I think the first time I saw Benedict [Cumberbatch] was as Sherlock Holmes, I thought, 'wow, that's incredibly Morpheus'. And fans probably thought the same because they immediately started doing fan-art, meshing the two of them up."
Plans for the Sandman movie adaptation has dragged on since the late 1990's, with first concept of the DC character's crossover to film. Warner Bros jumpstarted the development, but Gaiman considered a screenplay draft as "not only the worst Sandman script I've ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I've ever read."
Gaiman is heavily involved in the recent production, and trusts Gordon-Levitt to stay loyal to the material.
"I'm just happy that no bad Sandman movie has ever been made. But I'm really hoping that a good one will be. They're a good team. And with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in charge, his instincts are good and he loves the material. He wants it to be true to the material."
Regarding the casting of Morpheus, Gaiman almost considers Tom Hiddleston as a shoe-in, his role as Loki in "Thor" and "The Avengers" considered.
"Then again, Tom Hiddleston is still out there! And the truth is, as far as I'm concerned, anybody who sounds English with great cheekbones can probably pull it off."
