I’m ready to believe this promise of Neil Gaiman’s a lot more, given how good Good Omens was.
In an AMA session on Reddit (via CBR), the 58-year-old author not only assured fans that the adaptation would remain faithful in spirit to the source material, but that it would also follow the comics’ story properly. Wonder Woman co-writer Allan Heinberg will serve as showrunner with both Gaiman and David Goyer executive producing.
The big question for me still remains: will my favorite story (Emperor Norton I) be in there, somewhere? It’s not part of the main plot line, after all. But it is my favorite, and I am fighting the urge to go find my copy of the complete Sandman run now and spend the next three days rereading everything.
So, anyway. Good news! They’re not planning to muck it up any.
I hardly remember the main plot.
It’s the sidetrips and excursions that made Sandman something special. Be it Emperor Norton, Marco Polo, Shakespeare, or a decadent revel in Venice.