Neil Gaiman Says He Sabotaged Jon Peters’ ‘Sandman’ Movie by Leaking ‘Really Stupid’ Script
variety.comEthan Shanfeld This year, Neil Gaiman’s comic book series “The Sandman” was finally adapted on screen in Netflix’s popular television series.
But this is far from the first time that Hollywood tried to put the sprawling fantasy world to film. In fact, Gaiman declined several movie offers for “The Sandman” throughout the last three decades, but the author recently revealed that he went as far as to sabotage an idea from “Wild Wild West” and “A Star Is Born” producer Jon Peters by leaking the script to the press. “It was the worst script that I’ve ever read by anybody,” Gaiman said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “A guy in Jon Peters’ office phoned me up and he said, ‘So Neil, have you had a chance to read the script we sent you?’ And I said, ‘Well, yes.
Yes, I did. I haven’t read all of it, but I’ve read enough.’ He says, ‘So, pretty good. Huh?’ And I said, ‘Well, no. It really isn’t.’ He said, ‘Oh, come on.
There must have been stuff in there you loved.’ I said, ‘There was nothing in there I loved. There was nothing in there I liked.
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