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June 13, 1997 - Neverwhere / Neil Gaiman at book signing comments on movie
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"I was at a reading and book signing of Neil Gaiman's last night. Gaiman is the literary genius behind the original stories that the movies Sandman and Death: The High Cost of Living are to be based on. Gaiman wrote and directed a 6 part mini-series for the BBC on a Dr. Who-esque budget called Neverwhere. Gaiman has also just published a book by the same name which is a novelization of the mini-series. A young woman asked him at the reading last night whether American audiences would ever be able to see the miniseries. Gaiman said that eventually PBS could probably get ahold of it, but what was more exciting was that he had just been contacted by, in his words, 'one of the greatest directors Hollywood has to offer' who told Gaiman that he had a producer who was just 'dying' to do Neverwhere as a movie. Gaiman told them, and us, that he liked the idea because, while the movie would have to be shorter than the miniseries, at least it would have the budget to do things right. This director then asked Gaiman if he would write it; Gaiman agreed to when he realized that not writing the screenplay would mean letting someone else do, and probably mangle, it."
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