If you are even remotely into comics in the late 1980′s through the mid-1990′s, you at least knew about The Sandman. Heck, even if you weren’t into comic books, someone probably told you about it, it was just that good.  Apparently Warner Brothers Television is in talks with Eric Kripke, creator of Supernatural, about helming a television adaptation of the series.

… The guy from the crappy show that only keeps getting renewed because it’s on The CW, and they can’t afford to develop anything else?  Oh … this can’t be good.

The Sandman was a 75 issue series about Morpheus, one of the seven Endless siblings, who ruled various states of the human condition.  While Morpheus’ Endless name was Dream, his six siblings were Death, Destruction, Delirium (formerly Delight), Despair, Desire and Destiny.  They all shared pale complexions, talked about humans as if we were their toys and generally looked like they were going to break into songs by The Cure at any moment.

And the comic industry went mad for them.

The entire series was created by Neil Gaiman, and it ran from 1989 to 1996.  Death became popular enough that she got her own spin-off mini-series, Death: The High Cost of Living, which has been optioned as its own movie, and Death: The Time of Your Life.  Through out all the craziness that surrounded this series, several attempts were made at making a movie, but pretty much everyone agreed it would never work.  HBO made a bid to do a series at one point, but that also fell apart despite Gaiman being somewhat involved.

Now we come to the latest version which very little is known about it: No network is attached yet, Gainman hasn’t been asked to assist, Mr. Kripke’s attachment isn’t sealed yet and apparently even the rights aren’t settled.  In other words, some info got out, and now is the time for fans to act, and plead, that if this happens, it is done right.

It might work on some cable channels such as AMC, which is apparently really going all out for The Walking Dead, but due to some pretty radical themes, it would be best served on channels such as HBO, Showtime or Starz where advertiser sensibilities would not play a factor.

Honestly, I’m not sure if this can be adapted without messing it up due to how intricate it was.  I would love to see it happen, but I just can’t imagine it not getting messed up.  Here’s hoping.