Sandman Movie: Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star Or To Direct The Movie Adaptation Of The Comic Book?

Sandman movie is on its way to reality? Warner Bros. might just have found its comic-book movie adaptation that could make be the next big franchise in the movie industry.

Badass Digest states that sources from the inside told them that David Goyer, the well-known screenwriter of "Dark Knight" and "Man of Steel," expresses his interest on taking the Neil Gaiman comics to the big screen, and that Joseph Gordon-Levitt may be involved in the project. The report made by Badass Digest claims that Warner Bros. "has been very receptive" to the proposal.

What was not elaborated by the report, though, is to what extent would Joseph Gordon-Levitt involvement be. He either could play the role of the lead, Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams or as a director of the film (as the site considers him to be). It's been known that Gordon-Levitt has made his debut in directing with the film "Don Jon" early this year.

DC Comics and its Vertigo imprint from 1989 to 1996 published the Sandman. It was supposed to be adapted in the form of TV series first by James Mangold where he pitched to comic book to HBO, but to no avail. In 2011 Warner Bros. reportedly approached Supernatural creator Eric Kripke to oversee the project. However, within months efforts and speculations regarding the matter were held up when the project was turned down by Gaiman.

A previous attempt on adapting the Sandman into a movie was made by Roger Avary during the 90's, but it never happened and the development of the Sandman movie has been since a struggle.

Nevertheless, if the idea of a Sandman movie will pursue it may reinforce the comments made by Guillermo del Toro last week to Cinefilos.it about Warner Bros.' approach to DC Comics.

"We're still at Warner Bros.," the director said, in referral to Justice League Dark "They are making plans for the entire DC Universe. All the superheroes, all the mythologies, and part of that is Justice League Dark. They're planning on TV, movies, and all the media, so we have to fit into that plan."