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Netflix's The Sandman
Aug. 5th, 2022 08:22 pmI am one episode in and my main take away is *how* was this in development hell for twenty five years?
Yeah, ten or twenty years ago they couldn't have done this production quality or these effects, but the effects heavy shots aren't the most compelling or even trying to be. All it needs is 'trust the writing, trust the pacing' A Neverwhere level of production quality would have been fine. Was every other producer/director just trying to over-complicate it or make it more generic?
I know more complicated stuff is coming up. I know. I haven't opened an issue of Sandman in at least a decade and I know what's coming next in every scene. I am... familiar with Gaiman's work. Still, literally the approach is 'trust the writing, trust the pacing' and it works. I just works. WTF were all those other pitches and failed films even trying to do to it?
For those unaware, they have been so many announcements over adaption deals, casting news or certain directors being attached/replaced that it was a running joke for decades. It says something that when Netflix said they were tackling it that anyone believed them.
Anyway, off to watch more. But seeing it finally here I am just so baffled that this adaption was considered impossible for so long. Somehow no one could make it work? mind-blown.gif
Yeah, ten or twenty years ago they couldn't have done this production quality or these effects, but the effects heavy shots aren't the most compelling or even trying to be. All it needs is 'trust the writing, trust the pacing' A Neverwhere level of production quality would have been fine. Was every other producer/director just trying to over-complicate it or make it more generic?
I know more complicated stuff is coming up. I know. I haven't opened an issue of Sandman in at least a decade and I know what's coming next in every scene. I am... familiar with Gaiman's work. Still, literally the approach is 'trust the writing, trust the pacing' and it works. I just works. WTF were all those other pitches and failed films even trying to do to it?
For those unaware, they have been so many announcements over adaption deals, casting news or certain directors being attached/replaced that it was a running joke for decades. It says something that when Netflix said they were tackling it that anyone believed them.
Anyway, off to watch more. But seeing it finally here I am just so baffled that this adaption was considered impossible for so long. Somehow no one could make it work? mind-blown.gif
