Eric Heisserer Leaves Sandman Movie

 

Add Eric Heisserer to the growing list of names to depart the long-in-development Sandman movie. The screenwriter revealed that he  is no longer involved in the adaptation, before claiming that Neil Gaiman’s cult graphic novel would be better suited to television.

Here’s what the departing screenwriter said “I had many conversations with Neil Gaiman on this, and I did a lot of work on the feature and came to the conclusion that the best version of this property exists as an HBO series or limited series, not as a feature film, not even as a trilogy. The structure of the feature film really doesn’t mesh with this. So I went back and said here’s the work that I’ve done. This isn’t where it should be. It needs to go to TV. So I talked myself out of a job!”

it’s another blow for Sandman, a project that’s been dogged with setbacks from the get-go.