Sandman Movie Concept Pitch

Long before the Netflix tv show, Neil Gaiman tried to pitch a Sandman movie, so he asked Jill Thompson to create a series of paintings to show around. This watercolor painting is supposed to be one of the first scenes in the movie, the scene of Morpheus getting captured.

Obviously, a movie never got made, which makes me glad because I don’t think you can fit the rich world of Sandman into a movie. I’m also glad I bought this concept art early on from Cadence Comic Art. Ever since the tv show came out, they raised the prices for the unsold paintings around 3x higher.