three-decade-long journey to get made, Gaiman said in a recent appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that top brass at Warner Bros.
told him of the King of Pop’s interest in the part. “By 1996, I was being taken to Warners, where the then-president of Warner Bros.
sat me down and told me that Michael Jackson had phoned him the day before and asked him if he could star as Morpheus in ‘The Sandman,'” the executive producer said. “So, there was a lot of interest in this and they knew that it was one of the Crown Jewels and what did I think?
And I was like, ‘Ooh-um.'”The writer, who is also behind “Coraline” and “American Gods,” also said he naively thought the project, a huge hit in the ’90s and beyond, would be simple to cast. “I was like, ‘It’s going to be so easy to cast!
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