David Goyer's comments on the Neil Gaiman scandal
Indiewire reported that the screenwriter David Goyer, who had a few comics to his credits in the past quarter century and is one of the producers of the now ending Sandman series on Netflix, is the next Hollywood employee who gave his statement about the Neil Gaiman sexual assault scandal:
David S. Goyer understands: it was “weird” to work on “The Sandman” Season 2 after various allegations against author and co-creator Neil Gaiman were made public. Goyer, created the series alongside Gaiman, told Variety that while Gaiman “wasn’t as involved in Season 2 as he was in Season 1,” the accusations against him still impacted the rollout of the Netflix show. [...]Be that as it may, what he says is dampened by his past comments on the She-Hulk, for example, and to date, Goyer's never regretted his Superman story where the Man of Steel forfeits USA citizenship for the sake of a political statement, which even included a defeatist metaphor for Iran.
“When the accusations first came out, I think we were three weeks from finishing filming Season 2 — so we were very, very far down the path,” Goyer said of how production weathered the claims against Gaiman. “Neil wasn’t as involved in Season 2 as he was in Season 1. Obviously, it’s complicated. I have tremendous respect for women that come forward in those situations. It’s really concerning, but I know that Netflix, at the time, felt, ‘God, we spent two years making this thing. There’s all these actors and writers and directors involved that, if we didn’t air it, wouldn’t be fully compensated for it.’ And so we just decided, we’re going to let this work speak for itself. But I’d be crazy to say it wasn’t weird.”
The screenwriter further shared that “The Sandman” was set to wrap with Season 2 regardless of the allegations against Gaiman. “[The ending] was planned more than two years ago. And we had a lot of discussions, [showrunner] Allan [Heinberg] and I, with Netflix,” Goyer said. “And obviously we love the books, but one of the concerns about some of the story arcs is that Dream [Sturridge] isn’t in them very much. And so when we were discussing, everyone’s concern was like, are we really going to sort of deviate and do six episodes that Dream’s not in at all, except for the very end? And the other thing was even though the original comic book run, I think, was 75 issues, we just ended up burning through story faster than we thought we would, because the individual issues, a lot of them, when they were first being published, are only 17 pages.”Say what? Most of the issues were at least 22 pages, or more. There were several that were longer. This suggests that, despite any suggestions to the contrary, Goyer may not have read all the source material. Or is he confusing it with the original Golden Age Sandman, and any DC stories featuring Wesley Dodds that came in the Bronze Age? All Goyer's doing is making clear I'm better off not being a fan of his, and his work is not memorable or worth wasting money on. Goyer's right though, that several issues of the Gaiman Sandman series don't see the star of the show anywhere in sight, but isn't that just one more reason why this comic series wasn't worth adapting to start with? When will Hollywood ever learn?
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