Peachy Keen! Neil Gaiman talks about Death: The High Cost of Living film

Neil Gaiman was talking to MTV about how his Death comic's are going to be collected in an Absolute edition (which is great news - the Absolute comic collections are brilliant. I must get the Sandman ones. The Watchmen one is excellent. I also did a huge painting of Dream / Morpheus / Sandman on a wall in a flat I used to live in). He then went on to talk about the movie version of “Death,” It looks like the whole Warner Bros.-New Line-Warner Independent shuffling has sorted itself out, with New Line coming back to swoop it up.

“New Line is very much interested in making it,” Gaiman said, “once the dust settles. That will probably happen, unless it doesn’t.”

The good news is Gaiman already has a script “and a lot of [other] stuff” ready to go, once the green light happens.

“The delight in doing ‘Death: The High Cost of Living’ is that it’s already a movie-shaped story,” he told us backstage. “And it’s not even the fact that it’s Death from the Sandman comics. It’s just this lovely little story about a boy who’s depressed and a girl who says she’s Death, and the day they spend together.”

If “Death” works out, could other movies of the “Endless” be in order?

“Too hypothetical,” he smiled. “Beyond ‘Death,’ it’s all about time, and it’s all about desire, and it’s all about how many stories I get to write before I get hit by a bus. If I die by getting hit by a bus. It’s entirely possible I may just spontaneously combust.”

Pretty cool news. I love the Sandman comics and it will be great to see one of the Endless hitting the big screen. Who do you think would be good to play Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Destiny, Delirium and the rest of the Endless crew?
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