Squee! There's going to be a "Death" movie!!

[mitchy]

Found buried in an article here,

Gaiman is the Hugo and Nebula-Award winning author of such novels as "American Gods" and "Coraline," and is best known as the creator of DC Comics' legendary "Sandman". He wrote the English Language Script for the Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke. His first feature, MirrorMask, directed by Dave McKean, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. His short film A Short Film About John Bolton was just released on DVD. Projects in development based on work by Gaiman include Coraline, which Henry Selick is writing and directing, and Stardust, with director Matthew Vaughn. Gaiman is writing and will be directing Death and Me, based on his DC Comics graphic novel "Death: The High Cost of Living" for New Line Cinema.

Squeal!!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

More here (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808403660) and here (http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue385/interview.html).

Can't wait either!

Yeah but who would be Death?

[tired1680.livejournal.com]

I can't think of anyone off the top of my head who would do Death well.

Portman?

True, but fun to play guessing games

[tired1680.livejournal.com]

And you could always think of lesser known actresses.

*Pause* In thise case, I can't, but you know what I mean.

I mean, who'd do perky goth?

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

Personally, I hope it doesn't happen. I think Death and indeed the entire Sandman universe should stay in the imaginations of the readers. To make a film makes it part of concrete reality and it can only disappoint.

Plus, chances are, it'll be a very, very bad movie. I'll start thinking more positively if a name like Tim Burton gets attached until then I'm just going to hope it all goes away.

[(Anonymous)]

More comic to film news...
http://www.movieweb.com/news/news.php?id=6386

I'm not sure how much I trust the Wachowskis to do it though.