{"id":57107,"date":"2014-02-27T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=57107"},"modified":"2014-02-27T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T09:44:11","slug":"sandman-movie-writer-is-the-fades-jack-thorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/sandman-movie-writer-is-the-fades-jack-thorne\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandman movie writer is The Fades’ Jack Thorne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The-Sandman\"<\/a>Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s film of Neil Gaiman’s classic comic series The Sandman<\/em><\/strong> has found a writer in Jack Thorne.<\/p>\n

Thorne is best known to UK genre fans as the writer of the short-lived but absolutely mad horror\/fantasy\/everything else TV series The Fades<\/em><\/strong>, starring Iain De Caestecker. More recently he’s worked on Saorise Ronan vehicle How I Live Now<\/em><\/strong>, as well as Shane Meadows on his This Is England<\/em><\/strong> series.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> reports Gordon-Levitt’s involvement beyond producing is still unclear, we don’t yet know whether or not he’ll direct and\/or star. David S Goyer’s pitch for how to adapt The Sandman<\/em><\/strong> into a movie is credited with being the engine behind this adaptation, and the Man Of Steel<\/em><\/strong> writer remains attached as a producer, while Thorne will be working from his script.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this is still early days for The Sandman<\/em><\/strong>, but the addition of a writer who has tackled hugely ambitious subject matter before (on a BBC3 budget) feels like a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

You can buy The Fades<\/em> on Blu-ray for £8.68 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong>
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