SDCC 2013: Neil Gaiman on Sandman: Overture

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  • In this exclusive Con Away From Con video recorded at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, internationally acclaimed author Neil Gaiman and artist J.H. Williams III discuss The Sandman: Overture, the eagerly awaited new miniseries that marks the author's return to the iconic fantasy series.
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  • @dcofficial
    @dcofficial  Před 11 lety +142

    Watch Neil Gaiman himself talking about the past and future of Sandman as he - and we - get ready for Sandman Overture.

    • @leandroramos6409
      @leandroramos6409 Před 11 lety +1

      We need a great Sandman movie!

    • @jasonstrom5469
      @jasonstrom5469 Před 11 lety +6

      Can not wait for this to come out. So happy Neil Gaiman is back on this and J.H. Williams artwork is going to really put this over the top.

    • @Volinheim
      @Volinheim Před 10 lety +2

      Leandro Ramos Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been meeting with neil gaiman to get a script together for a sandman movie. Gordon is confirmed for producing and is also rumored to star as Morpheus and direct the film as well.

  • @adamdobbs5345
    @adamdobbs5345 Před 11 lety +45

    'I'm a writer of... things.' Multi-award winning author right there!

  • @negativeindustrial
    @negativeindustrial Před 9 lety +85

    He REALLY looks like Morpheus in this interview. It's made very obvious with that picture right next to him.

  • @MaximusMeridius8675
    @MaximusMeridius8675 Před 9 lety +46

    Sandman Overture singlehandedly changed how I read comics. I was reading them but I was really bored with everything that was coming out and was considering stopping reading them. I didn;t care to read Overture when I heard about it but I saw it in the shop and bought it on a whim. After that, I was hooked. I went and bought a bunch of the TPBs and it got me into Vertigo books and other independent books which is primarily what I read now, all thanks to Sandman: Overture. Thank you Neil Gaiman.

    • @jaytender4949
      @jaytender4949 Před 2 lety +1

      Hi, I’m 6 years too late but now’s a good time then ever. The Sandman is coming to Netflix very soon and I wanted to start reading the graphic novel from Vol.1 to 10. So my question is, is Sandman Overture really worth my time after the 10 volumes?
      Thank you and are you excited for the Sandman show? Have a great day 😊

    • @Carlosdreamur
      @Carlosdreamur Před 2 lety +1

      @@jaytender4949 if you like sandman. Then you should at least give overtune a try but that’s just what I think

    • @shahg9218
      @shahg9218 Před 6 měsíci

      Read original novels first then the overture. ​@@jaytender4949

  • @Underpuck
    @Underpuck Před 11 lety +23

    There is really no better writer in modern times! I have never read another writer as diverse or as educated and I have been reading comix since I was a kid! The first thing I read of substance was the Tao when I was about 8 in 1974. My father was a huge influence on me as a child and my reading habits were strongly influenced by him. He passed this year. Nothing could be a better tribute to what my father taught me than to have a new episode in the "Endless"! Thanks Neil - it matters to ME!

  • @toqa6735
    @toqa6735 Před 4 lety +6

    I never get tired of watching his old interviews over and over as I'm reading his books...

  • @kick3n3mini
    @kick3n3mini Před 8 lety +57

    He looks alot like Morpheus.

    • @anupamhore5125
      @anupamhore5125 Před 4 lety +9

      maybe he is Morpheus, who knows

    • @D3XthaTriF3ctA
      @D3XthaTriF3ctA Před 3 lety +2

      Technically he is

    • @cristianonescu
      @cristianonescu Před 3 lety +5

      I think in overture says somewhere that the character look is inspired by him. I've seen this but I don't remember where exactly

    • @jull_dragon
      @jull_dragon Před 3 lety +4

      Morpheus look is inspired partially by author himself and partially by the lead singer of the group Bauhaus Peter Murphy. I could've forgot somebody.

  • @PewPew_McPewster
    @PewPew_McPewster Před 8 lety +12

    I think the combination of Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III was one of those team ups I'd always prayed for.
    Now that Sandman Overture has concluded, I'm so glad they did.

    • @MarwaDG
      @MarwaDG Před 8 lety +1

      +Yamibakeru hello there do you think i should read Overture or Nocturnes and preludes ? i m really interested in the story and the art behind it but i m confused by the number on editions !

    • @chriscioffi9130
      @chriscioffi9130 Před 8 lety +3

      +marwa dg Definitely Nocturnes. In fact, read the whole series first, as Overture has a lot more impact if you've already done so.

  • @Adretea
    @Adretea Před 9 lety +15

    sandman is such a special dark comic that I can´t imagine making it into a movie.... its one of those intimate pieces you cling to and imagine in your own way....

  • @MariaVosa
    @MariaVosa Před 11 lety +89

    "My name is Neil Gaiman, and I am a writer of...things"
    SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

  • @evanabbott2737
    @evanabbott2737 Před 3 lety +3

    It was such a pleasure reading Overture..😁👍

  • @TheKrazyLobster
    @TheKrazyLobster Před 11 lety +5

    "It's very... very... strange".
    Holy sweet Odin. Can you even begin to fathom what NEIL GAIMAN thinks "strange"? Damn... This will be SO GOOD @_@

  • @cha5
    @cha5 Před 10 lety +11

    I loved it, for some reason I was a little unsure if Sandman: Overture would measure up to Neil's previous Sandman series and I was somehow afraid that this might be something on the scale of 'Before Watchmen', (stupid me) :-P
    Thankfully that wasn't the case at all, Gaiman & Williams have given us a beautiful opening and I can't wait until issue #2.
    It's hard to believe it's been 25 years since that day i first saw Sandman #1 in my local comicbook shop,

  • @litas6339
    @litas6339 Před 10 lety +9

    Neil should keep not caring what people think, it works well for him

  • @Vesperitis
    @Vesperitis Před 11 lety +3

    And comic book editors are all "We can't have our characters marry because it'll alienate our audience."
    This man right here proved them wrong and is still proving them wrong.

  • @malubv
    @malubv Před 11 lety +2

    This is so fucking awesome, I can hardly believe it. A whole year of new Sandman. And the art looks fantastic... and it's Neil Gaiman's Sandman!

  • @GolDRoger-zd3wm
    @GolDRoger-zd3wm Před 9 lety +5

    Issue 6 this Wednesday, hell yea!!!!!

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial Před 9 lety +2

      Oh I'm a few issues behind! It's been hard to keep up these last few years with its sporadic schedule! I hope it's more coherent once it's all together. I'll need to reread the previous issues as it's been several months between each installment

  • @strega0
    @strega0 Před 6 lety +14

    sooooo, the artists are just going to draw Dream in whatever Neil's current haircut is, aren't they? lol
    not that I'm complaining..

  • @witchingroom
    @witchingroom Před 9 lety +1

    Gaiman is fantastic! I Need to pick this up. I would LOVE to see Williams illustrate justice league dark too - that would be a dream come true

  • @humanclone1stgen
    @humanclone1stgen Před 11 lety +1

    In case you missed it, 25 years is huge!

  • @chrisdelisle3954
    @chrisdelisle3954 Před 4 lety +3

    As if Neil Gaiman has ever NOT lived up to expectations...

  • @luckygitane
    @luckygitane Před 9 lety +4

    And two years later, the 6 issue story isn't done.

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial Před 9 lety +8

      Patience sir. Masterpieces do not conform to a schedule. We've waited nearly twenty years. A few months more wont matter in the scheme of things

  • @deadpiratealice
    @deadpiratealice Před 11 lety +1

    The magic that is Gaiman!

  • @MrVomora
    @MrVomora Před 10 lety +1

    Sandman:Season of Mists. Greatest story ever!!!!

  • @Stitchlii
    @Stitchlii Před 3 lety +2

    Neil is GOAT

  • @nkr9241
    @nkr9241 Před 11 lety +1

    Always liked him. Truly a CLASS author

  • @ComicCasual
    @ComicCasual Před 11 lety +1

    Neil seems like a very cool guy

  • @JamesHaney
    @JamesHaney Před 11 lety

    Thank You, Messieurs Gaiman and Williams--October can't get here soon enough!

  • @drvannostran3165
    @drvannostran3165 Před 10 lety +45

    Please dont screw up Sandman by making it a movie. Its a really bad idea.

    • @temoralez
      @temoralez Před 9 lety +16

      Definitely not a movie. It could never capture it in all its glory. I believe the maybe. Maybe a TV show could do it, but it'd have to be spread out and not rushed

    • @drvannostran3165
      @drvannostran3165 Před 9 lety +5

      All we can do is hope for the best and Neil Gaiman is involved.

    • @ShinbrigTV
      @ShinbrigTV Před 9 lety +2

      drvannostran Gaiman is involved with the film and it's being written by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The great thing about JGL is that he is taking his time with the film rather than just slapping a release date for the sake of a release date, also the film will be released under "New Line Cinemas" meaning that it will more than likely hit a hard R-rating.

    • @drvannostran3165
      @drvannostran3165 Před 9 lety

      I don't know I've got a bad feeling about the whole thing... Ugh JGL.
      Thanks for the bad news...

    • @ShinbrigTV
      @ShinbrigTV Před 9 lety

      drvannostran I can understand where you're coming from man. I'd say before getting all melancholy...wait for the first trailer. JGL while only 1 feature-length film under his belt, it was still a well written film considering the topic. So at least wait for the first trailer, who know it could be good.

  • @jamessingletn8196
    @jamessingletn8196 Před 10 lety +1

    Loved this comic so much I read it twice!

  • @andreapk2789
    @andreapk2789 Před 5 lety +2

    this makes me so happy

  • @luthoratemybaby
    @luthoratemybaby Před 7 lety +2

    What an awesome man

  • @darkdave1998
    @darkdave1998 Před 11 lety +2

    It just goes to show that even a brilliant author occasionally... eventually... runs out of words.

  • @santahed
    @santahed Před 11 lety

    with all the news in Comic-Con this is the one i am most excited!!!!! god!!!!

  • @DavidGivenSchwarm
    @DavidGivenSchwarm Před 11 lety

    Awesome. Not sure if 100s of millions of people care, but I do and it is great to know that you still do, too.

  • @MrSnickster
    @MrSnickster Před 8 lety

    I had no idea he was writing new Sandman. I guess it wasn't that hard to keep a secret Neil! Thanks for writing again, I gotta get it!

  • @FeIixMarques
    @FeIixMarques Před 11 lety

    So it's six chapters? Awesome!

  • @ConstantXplorer
    @ConstantXplorer Před 11 lety

    I need to backtrack and read the first issues. This is an intriguing character.

  • @Olympics2048
    @Olympics2048 Před 11 lety

    big fan neil keep up the good work. i believe in what you write and just write like the story is just for you again because you have great taste.

  • @LuisPosos
    @LuisPosos Před 11 lety +4

    He looks like the cover.

  • @Bonitaymorena
    @Bonitaymorena Před 11 lety +1

    you must!!!! :D Sandman is the shit!!! I was so addicted after I read the first issue!!!

  • @Alan7moore
    @Alan7moore Před 10 lety

    damn I think I'll just wait till it's all out, I will go absolutely insane waiting 2 months for each issue.

  • @DionysusJPower
    @DionysusJPower Před 9 lety

    Just started reading Sandman, loving it so far

    • @negativeindustrial
      @negativeindustrial Před 9 lety +1

      Better late than never! I read from issue 13 on and it's truly the one comic I would take with me to the proverbial desert island. If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to miss it all these years? How did you come upon it at last?
      I found my issue 13 in the stack of magazines my Studio Art IV teacher kept in the back of the studio for inspiration. I swiped it and replaced it with an old magazine my mother gave me (I can't abide thievery). I've been hooked ever since that night

  • @FariasLukasD
    @FariasLukasD Před 11 lety

    October can't come soon enough!!!

  • @EASmitty61
    @EASmitty61 Před 8 lety

    LOVED them

  • @dwalta7
    @dwalta7 Před 11 lety

    I'm so happy!

  • @Bonitaymorena
    @Bonitaymorena Před 11 lety

    *arms flailing* I can't!!!! XDDDDD I'm so excited!!!!!! I first heard about the Sandman series in 2003 when it was re-issued. But I didn't get to read it until I was 16. Ever since I've loved this dude!!!! Then I read Anasi boys!!! :D AHHHH I'm sooooo happpy!!!! He's gonna blow our minds!!!

  • @phail555
    @phail555 Před 10 lety +1

    Overture is coming, huh? Now another reason that I need to catch up on reading the original series.

  • @cameronarthur0
    @cameronarthur0 Před 11 lety

    So excited

  • @lauriecroad3186
    @lauriecroad3186 Před rokem +1

    It is just a story. Beware. Story is never JUST a story. But you knew that.

  • @MrHeroFamily
    @MrHeroFamily Před 9 lety +1

    I was wondering whether he had picked elements from E.T.A. Hoffmann's Gothic Horror story "Sandman" and transformed it to his own version.

  • @m1ssh
    @m1ssh Před 11 lety

    I. Can't. Wait.

  • @ConstantXplorer
    @ConstantXplorer Před 11 lety

    Sounds good to me. I'll certainly check it out.

  • @jasonszeto7790
    @jasonszeto7790 Před 8 měsíci

    The goat.

  • @Bits_N_Pixels
    @Bits_N_Pixels Před 11 lety

    Cant wait!

  • @GolDRoger-zd3wm
    @GolDRoger-zd3wm Před 10 lety +2

    The gangsters of comics ^_^

  • @Neopreacher
    @Neopreacher Před 11 lety

    This made my day :)

  • @Dionydejesus
    @Dionydejesus Před 10 lety

    I am so sad really right now, because I now about Sandman just today 5/16/2014 that is really unfair. I have to buy all his books.

  • @dubiouslyemo
    @dubiouslyemo Před 10 měsíci

  • @stephenconnell
    @stephenconnell Před 8 lety +6

    Has he ever explained why he decided to kill Morpheous?

    • @lazkraft7917
      @lazkraft7917 Před 8 lety +3

      +stephen connell FEELS DONT SPEAK OF THAT AGAIN PLEASEEE

    • @stephenconnell
      @stephenconnell Před 8 lety

      Lazar Knezevic Don't speak of what again?

    • @lazkraft7917
      @lazkraft7917 Před 8 lety +2

      stephen connell His death I cried when he died and I dont like Daniel as Dream

    • @stephenconnell
      @stephenconnell Před 8 lety

      Lazar Knezevic Ok

    • @fadednumber
      @fadednumber Před 8 lety +9

      +stephen connell Yes. That was the story he wanted to tell. He knew that was the ending from the start. "The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision." That was the story in a nutshell, per Neil.

  • @Razielmn
    @Razielmn Před 11 lety +1

    I'm working on becomes graphic novel, comic book artist :D

  • @cha5
    @cha5 Před 11 lety

    I've been cutting off buying DC books across the board mainly because of 'The New 52' (except for Animal Man & Batwoman) 'Before Watchmen' and DC's treatment of Chris Roberson among other reasons.
    But with Gaiman & Williams bringing us a new Sandman arc? I just can't pass that up. Looking forward to October.

  • @realh4907
    @realh4907 Před 10 lety

    Death it's the coolest

  • @CountSmokeula
    @CountSmokeula Před 11 lety

    i dunno man i used to be a huge neil gaiman fan in fact i used to go to all his signings and had all my sandman books signed. but i feel like all the stuff he pumps out is the same these past few years

  • @godsmacked1000
    @godsmacked1000 Před 10 lety

    Why isn't this a movie yet?

    • @cha5
      @cha5 Před 9 lety +3

      Be careful what you wish for, You just might get it. :-(
      Google ' The Sandman movie'

    • @godsmacked1000
      @godsmacked1000 Před 9 lety +1

      Why the frowny face? Isn't that good? Depending on the director this could be one of the greatest movies of all time! Also the quality of CGI they use....and actors lol

    • @cha5
      @cha5 Před 9 lety +2

      Edwin Hernandez The frowny face is because I kind of doubt that Sandman could work all that well as a feature film, What works beautifully on the printed page may not work all that well on film.
      Not every comic book that been made could work as a live action movie, Two different mediums you know,
      and I question whether or not something on the scale of Neil Gaiman's Sandman really could.
      (besides if we have to have a movie I'd kind of rather see an animated Sandman film just myself)
      Also unless Gaiman has a direct hand in this movie I kind of doubt it could work without his involvement in one way or another.
      And just myself I think Sandman might possibly translate to television better than as a big screen movie
      for character development maybe as an HBO or AMC series.

  • @jordanodiaz2523
    @jordanodiaz2523 Před 6 lety

    Wait so do i buy Overture before the absolute edition ? I'm just starting on these comics

    • @doylebogers7461
      @doylebogers7461 Před 6 lety

      Jordano Diaz it is advised by many people and neil himself that you should read the entirety of sandman first and then overture. It makes you appreciate overture a lot more this way

    • @jordanodiaz2523
      @jordanodiaz2523 Před 6 lety

      Doyle Bogers thank you

  • @gabrielaqueiroz6644
    @gabrielaqueiroz6644 Před 8 lety +3

    O cabelo do sand n ta mais grandão doido , eu gostava :,(

    • @marioxsalez
      @marioxsalez Před 8 lety

      +Gabriela Queiroz oi

    • @stephenrosa4799
      @stephenrosa4799 Před 8 lety

      +Gabriela Queiroz Eu tbm achava melhor, agr ta "comportado dms" ...

  • @twylerchill
    @twylerchill Před 11 lety

    my mom does the same thing lol

  • @spacebrain1991
    @spacebrain1991 Před 11 lety

    !!!!!!!

  • @pearcustard
    @pearcustard Před rokem

    Daddy

  • @justinpiscinesanesbystrang5699

    his that illegal

  • @Quntumking
    @Quntumking Před 9 lety

    Sandman vs The Spectre.

    • @thebiggeridiot
      @thebiggeridiot Před 8 lety

      +Kingssoldier well, considering the fact that the endless are such higher tier beings that even when everyone and everything gets rebooted around them and changed (including the specter) the endless are unaffected by the event that would reboot them. plus dream's sister is THE personification of death where as all these other death like beings like nekron are nowhere near as powerful as her.

    • @ilykaitsosomuch
      @ilykaitsosomuch Před 8 lety

      +thebiggeridiot they are retconning the Endless in Rebirth in May. They're more towards like 8-9 in the top 10. Not nearly as powerful

  • @pauljohnston8011
    @pauljohnston8011 Před 3 lety

    are you hiring?

  • @MitchConnelly
    @MitchConnelly Před 10 lety

    He's the worst interviewee...

  • @CountSmokeula
    @CountSmokeula Před 11 lety

    he's lost his edge as a writer

    • @lennyrose5852
      @lennyrose5852 Před 6 lety +3

      CountSmokeula Welp, Overture sure proved that wrong