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As a huge Gaiman and Maggs fan, these two giants of their respective fields could only result in something truly special, right? Since it was first announced that Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs would be teaming up to create an audiobook adaption of The Sandman, it is safe to say that I have been counting down the days in anticipation.

“The Sandman” is available for download on Audible beginning July 15.By Ben Wright ( This review is spoiler-free. The opening chapter runs an hour, while most of the 19 that follow are in the 30-minute range, encompassing the first three of the graphic novels. Gaiman is narrating the Audible production, which is written and directed by Dirk Maggs, who has worked on a number of Gaiman audio adaptations, including “Neverwhere” and “Stardust,” as well as “The X-Files.”įor strangers to Audible dramas, the production includes all the trappings of an old radio play, including a lush musical score by James Hannigan. Talk of a movie began in the 1990s, and the last serious attempt involved actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (of “Inception” and “The Dark Knight Rises”), who left the project in 2016.Īmid various stops and starts to film the project, Gaiman famously said that he’d “rather see no ‘Sandman’ movie made than a bad ‘Sandman’ movie,” as he told a crowd at Comic-Con International. Much like the graphic novel “Watchmen,” which was called “unadaptable” before becoming a movie in 2009 and more recently inspired an HBO series sequel, “Sandman” has represented a sort of Moby Dick for movie makers. That follows a premium-TV version of Gaiman’s “American Gods” for Starz and “Good Omens,” the series that he produced for Amazon.

Goyer (a veteran of comics adaptations, including “Batman Begins” and “Krypton”) are developing the project for Netflix.

The project comes as “Sandman” has finally taken a major step toward a TV adaptation, with the announcement last year that Allan Heinberg (who wrote “Wonder Woman”) and David S.