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So will there be a crossover with Sam and Dean?

I'm pretty sure Gaiman DOES own the character, at least to some extent. From what I hear, DC has to get his permission to use Dream, but they don't need it to use Destiny, since that character existed before Sandman and Gaiman just integrated him into his mythology. So I think Gaiman must have given his permission for this and will probably be making some money out of it.

Not that this could ever be a good idea. The could never afford the special effects necessary to render all the different worlds and times the comic presents. That's beside the fact that there's no way they'll find a writer even half as good as Gaiman to manage the story.

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who would be the target audience? we are talking about a comic from the 80's?

We're not talking about 'a comic from the 80's'. We're talking about an epic masterpiece that interweaves massive literary, historical and mythological themes together into an intensely complex and beautiful narrative. I'm a on-again, off-again fan of most of Gaiman's oeuvre, and Sandman is just fucking brilliant.

Who was the target for Deadwood or The Wire or Oz or Battlestar Galactica or Lost or any of the other complex, multi-character, multi-year series out there?

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Sandman does not belong to Gaiman. He didn't invent the character. O course, the golden age hero Dream is based on, one foolishly empowered to put baddies to sleep, is a completely original divergence. But I think we're right thinking that no one it obligated to include Neil in any movie or series. I think it's a terrible idea, not because the artwork was so amazing and unique, but because so much was left to your imagination. The ghost of the image was there, but Titania, the Cereal convention, Marco Polo, Hob Gadley, Delirium, Death, the Wyvern, Fiddler's Green, Cain--all are so personal in my head. I just don't see it. How can this be filmed? Not to mention the impossible task of finding a Oneiros that is neither sanctimonious or a whiny bitch when it comes to live-acting. Although I would be fine dropping Orpheus from the story as I doubt this show would ever make enough seasons to get to the hags and Lyta.

And sometimes the art and the writing are stunning. I am very skeptical about this show being played for the initiates, a move which almost exclusively ruins it for avid fans.

I just can't imagine how on Earth they plan to PG-13 this story without totally brutalizing it. Oh wait- they will just go ahead and brutalize it.

Will they only employ one team of animators? One layer of beauty in the Sandman series is the constantly changing artwork.

Will they only employ one team of animators? One layer of beauty in the Sandman series is the constantly changing artwork.

Now I'm imagining it in the style of Waking Life or Waltzing with Bashir and that is a deliriously joyful thing.

No, this wouldn't work at all. I'm pretty sure I read that Gaiman has had offers about a Sandman film before but declined, which suggests that he does own the rights. I think he's picky about things like directors and involvement and things, which is why Stardust and Coraline turned out so well. Also, it could never be pg-13, how Gaiman goes from lighthearted fun to really, really dark without any warning is part of why Sandman's so great.

Let's just hope it never gets off of the ground?

Does anybody else have some images from the Sandman burned into their brain for the Well-THAT-messed-me-up reasons? Like the scene in the diner where the crazy guy started (literally) fucking with everybody?
That wouldn't work on TV.

Jackspellen was right, the power of these books lay in your imagination, and let's face it, the imagination is a terrifying, fucked-up place. I'm not sure any TV show team, no matter how talented they are, would be able to properly translate this series.

While most of the horror type thing happen in the early issues, there are a couple of things I remember from later on, Sciencegeek. Thessaly (or whatever she was calling herself at this point) from A Game of You cutting off the face of a neighbor, nailing it to a wall ( with nails through the eyeballs) and making it answer questions as a part of a ritual. The punishment of Richard Madoc, for raping Caliope, that leads him scratch his fingers down to the bone and write with his blood in an effort to write down the flood of ideas. Just two off the top of my head.

I don't know, I'm sort of okay with Kripke.

I mean generally speaking, I'm horrified that it's even being made for TV (I'm fairly convinced it's unfilmable), and that if it IS going to go there I'm horrified that it's not going to get the decency of a cable/HBO release.

But as someone who watches Supernatural (shutup) you can really tell how much Kripke loves Neil Gaiman's work. Seriously, like everything the man has ever done. I mean he's admitted that American Gods and Sandman where two of the main influences in creating Supernatural, and it's fairly obvious that the later angels/demons/apocolypse mythology arc was a low-rent Good Omens riff.

If someone's going to make a god awful mess of this (and no matter who does it, that is exactly what it will be), you could do worse than a fellow genre nerd/fanboy who at least has a lot of love for the source material.

Or maybe I'm just getting used to Hollywood bastardizing everything I've ever loved...I just can't seem to muster up the proper level of righteous indignation anymore.