Neil Gaiman on BTAS and DC/Vertigo

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

Just posted on Neil Gaiman's weblog (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/06/several-answers.html):


I always loved the idea of doing a Sandman/Batman Animated cartoon episode, and we were definitely talking about it in '93, after Vertigo came into existence -- I remember talking to Paul Dini about what actors could do Morpheus's voice, and had voted for, I think, John Hurt, although I may be misremembering.

I'd assumed that they lost interest. But there was definitely some kind of Vertigo/DC divide that came into existence in there somewhere, imposed from DC/Vertigo editorial and above, worried, I was told, that a kid would feel pressured by continuity to pick up a "For Mature Readers" title and the world would end.

-- Ed

[Anarky]

alas, could've been sweet, perhaps a pitch for a Vertigo series
I still think Adult Swim should produce a Vertigo title

[Maxie Zeus]

Vertigo title or no, I'd love to have had John Hurt do a voice in the Timmverse.

[Revelator]

There's an old issue of Hero magazine where Timm or Dini talks about how they'd love to have Sandman on the show, but that they would have trouble writing a script suited to both heroes, since the Sandman comics had a level of dialogue too high for BTAS.