The Sandman That Never Was
ttempts to bring to the screen started early. Neil Gaiman was first approached about a possible movie adaptation as soon as 1991, with screenwriting duo Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (who would go on to pen the films) attached. They wrote a draft that, like the TV series, and . Gaiman reportedly liked it, as did co-writer Roger Avary who was hired to direct the film. It was faithful in spirit to the comics and notably included the “A Dream of a Thousand Cats” sequence – perhaps one of the reasons the studio declared the script ultimately “undeliverable”.
