I think this was the article I read about it a couple weeks back: https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/the-sandman-premiere-preview-neil-gaiman-interview-12353

I think this was the article I read about it a couple weeks back: https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/the-sandman-premiere-preview-neil-gaiman-interview-1235328771/ https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/the-sandman-premiere-pr... Basically - lots of proposed adaptations with stupid plots, bad directing, etc. Ahhh, no it was this article: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220803-the-sandman-how-an-unfilmable-comic-made-it-to-netflix https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220803-the-sandman-how... In "An evening with Kevin Smith" (which you can buy, or find on Youtube), he details how around the same time Jon Peters was trying to persuade him to make "Superman Returns" which featured a "Giant Mechanical Spider". Neil Gaiman also got this pitch for a Sandman plot. Eventually the giant spider ended up in "Wild Wild West" with Will Smith. We all know how that went.