OH GOD: DAVID GOYER pitching a ‘SANDMAN’ MOVIE with JGL INVOLVED.

If you’ve read anything of mine regarding David Goyer, you know that I consider the dude to be a bit of a crap-covered dildo. I don’t have anything against the lad personally (he is probably a terrific human being), but his scripts and movies have the subtlety of a dynamite stuck in someone’s bung hole.

There’s a new issue of Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman on stands now. It launches a short ongoing story called The Sandman: Overture, acting as an explanation of events that preceded the first issue of the seminal comic series. It’s the first new Sandmanstory since 2003, and the first series of multiple issues since the series originally ended in 1996. (And, in keeping with some periods of the original publication, Overtureis already experiencing delays.)

All of which is a long way of saying that a lot of people are thinking and talking aboutSandman again, and that seems to have re-ignited the interest in making a movie at Warner Bros. The latest word is that David Goyer has pitched a take that WB likes, and that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the ideal candidate to play the lynchpin character Morpheus.

Badass Digest reports the news, but cautions that this is all very early, and could not happen at all. It would not be the first Sandman adaptation to fail; there have been a few possible movie versions, and most recently a mooted TV adaptation spearheaded by Eric Kripke of Supernatural.

There’s also some minor question of whether the interest in JGL is to direct rather than act, but BAD suspects the prime interest is to land him as an actor.

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So him pitching Sandman? I ain’t even a big fan of the franchise, but Goyer worries me. However, JGL as Morpheus? I don’t know. Color me partially intrigued.

Thoughts?