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Neil Gaiman
With a powerhouse package of talent, from the source material to the star, Fox is looking to get a pretty sweet deal if it picks up the Neil Gaiman-based film.
Based on the Neil Gaiman story, A father steps out to buy milk and comes back with fantastic tales of aliens and pirates and robots.
Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller and Kings creator Michael Green will shepherd the adaptation of Gaiman’s bestselling 2001 novel, which centers on a modern day America where the ancient gods of myth exist in human form.
Logline: Retells the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale of children abandoned in the woods.
The channel that brought us “Spartacus” and “Camelot” is trying for something a little more modern.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will focus on a man trying to hold back primal creatures from beyond the world.
ABC Fam, BET and HBO pick up something new, while Adult Swim, BET and Nick renew something old, The Dark Tower adds a writer, and Four more sign exclusive TV deals…
“Coraline” scribe to adapt the classic Chinese novel into a $300M fantasy epic!
Logline: Story follows a couple of British 1970s teenage boys who go to a party to meet girls, only to find that the exchange students there are more interplanetary than foreign.
Logline: Story follows the adventures of the Monkey King, who, armed with a magic staff, journeys with a monk, a pig spirit and a fish spirit to India to retrieve Buddha’s scrolls in an effort to find enlightenment.
Warner Bros. Television has snatched up the TV rights to Neil Gaiman’s comic book series “SANDMAN.” The series, has firmly established itself as one of the most renowned works in the medium, having been in some form of film development for almost 20 years (the series first began in 1989).
But, now WB, alongside DC Comics (who published the book via their “Vertigo” imprint and will produce the TV series) sees a very bright future in the series, and is in talks with Eric Kripke, the creator of the CW’s “Supernatural,†to possibly take a stab at adapting. While “Supernatural” and “Sandman” in my opinion are at opposite ends of the spectrum, I think the type of show I’d love Sandman to be, isn’t necessarily one that would rake in viewers, so I’ll wait to pass any judgement until we’re much farther down the road.
Prior to WB’s involvement on the TV side, DC was in talks with HBO and James Mangold to develop a show, with Mangold even meeting with Gaiman to discuss the series as a whole, but after a long dormant hiatus due to scheduling issues, that never came to be.
The story of “Sandman†began with Morpheus, the Lord of the Dreaming realm, a deity who personifies dreams, and could work and alter your dreams as he see fit. As he series continued we met the rest of his family, a group who were the bearers of a majority of humanity’s darker emotions; Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium, and Morpheus’ real name – Dream.
Logline: A young boy, raised in a graveyard and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead, must handle obstacles such as the ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, and the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
Logline: A sexually transmitted “bug” is passed from teenager to teenager. No one talks about it openly, but the bug causes violent mutations.
During the last days of Earth’s creation, the angel of vengeance sets out to solve the first murder ever committed, which occurs among the angels in heaven.