1. Ah, found it...I read on londonkds's post about Neil Gaiman losing his temper over a bunch of alt-right nitwits whining about the Sandman casting. (Which I personally find interesting. But I've also read the Sandman comics. And have read Gaiman. And understand that art in a comic is a free-flowing sort of thing, and open to interpretation. It's kind of like novels, most novels, the good ones, are open to interpretation regarding how a character "looks". So..)
Anyhow..here's the article explaining what happened...on Twitter. (Of course it was on Twitter - all the fights happen on Twitter. Honestly, I think all the fan trolls flocked en mass to Twitter.)
( Excerpt )
Gaiman says in a separate post that the actress playing Death - fit the role perfectly in his head, after he saw her on The Good Place.
Oh...this is amusing.. Neil comments on it on Tumblr
And I found the tweet Neil Gaiman's response to nitwit
I find Neil Gaiman interesting - he's very charming and rarely gets railed up about anything. But every once and a while, he will lose his temper.
Because it's so rare - it's interesting. He lost his temper once in regards to fans of GRR Martin driving everyone nuts about their whining for another book. "The author is not your bitch," said Gaiman succinctly.
Fans are weird about adaptations of things they happen to love. IF the adaptation is not exactly as it appears in their heads - they get nasty about it. Truth is - it's unlikely to be, because the individual making the adaptation isn't the fan. I personally find adaptations interesting, because its a different take on the source work. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.
It's been so long since I've read the Sandman comics - that I don't remember what the characters look like, I barely remember them at all. I know I read a lot of them - but I've no memory of it. I do know the characters were quirky and different, and from my memory of it - the casting works very very well. There's no one better to cast an adaptation of their own work than the writer or author of it - because you get to see how they envisioned it.
ETA: I'm still entertained by this..
"Peter Sagal
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petersagal
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neilhimself
I'd be very interested in how you managed to win those battles, given the existence of the movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
I restrained myself from responding..."Uhm, hello? Alan Moore??"
Oh look someone else said it - but differently: "Sense Fracture
sense_fracture -
Alan Moore was never really interested in the movies, so he never actually battled. It was almost always DC who sold the rights."
ME: Eh, no. Because it's Alan Moore - and no one is going to help Alan Moore. Because hello? Alan Moore.
Gaiman's reaction? "I cared. I had allies. And it's always easier not to make a movie than to make it."
ME: You're also not an asshole like Alan Moore. Seriously Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Warren Ellis are the assholes of the comic book industry. So is Scott Allie. ]
IT is a hilarious thread. Honestly, fans fighting with writers about what they should write, who they should cast, and that they don't understand their own work is ....LOL.
Also proof that art is like a child, it grows, and leaves you...and becomes something else after interacting with the world - when it returns to you, it's not quite yours any longer, no matter how much you wish it were.
2. Also found THIS on Twitter. It's a disclaimer for well any post you could possibly come up with.... I got distracted by it while looking for the Neil Gaiman post.
Anyhow..here's the article explaining what happened...on Twitter. (Of course it was on Twitter - all the fights happen on Twitter. Honestly, I think all the fan trolls flocked en mass to Twitter.)
( Excerpt )
Gaiman says in a separate post that the actress playing Death - fit the role perfectly in his head, after he saw her on The Good Place.
Oh...this is amusing.. Neil comments on it on Tumblr
And I found the tweet Neil Gaiman's response to nitwit
I find Neil Gaiman interesting - he's very charming and rarely gets railed up about anything. But every once and a while, he will lose his temper.
Because it's so rare - it's interesting. He lost his temper once in regards to fans of GRR Martin driving everyone nuts about their whining for another book. "The author is not your bitch," said Gaiman succinctly.
Fans are weird about adaptations of things they happen to love. IF the adaptation is not exactly as it appears in their heads - they get nasty about it. Truth is - it's unlikely to be, because the individual making the adaptation isn't the fan. I personally find adaptations interesting, because its a different take on the source work. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.
It's been so long since I've read the Sandman comics - that I don't remember what the characters look like, I barely remember them at all. I know I read a lot of them - but I've no memory of it. I do know the characters were quirky and different, and from my memory of it - the casting works very very well. There's no one better to cast an adaptation of their own work than the writer or author of it - because you get to see how they envisioned it.
ETA: I'm still entertained by this..
"Peter Sagal
petersagalReplying to
neilhimselfI'd be very interested in how you managed to win those battles, given the existence of the movie "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."
I restrained myself from responding..."Uhm, hello? Alan Moore??"
Oh look someone else said it - but differently: "Sense Fracture
sense_fracture - Alan Moore was never really interested in the movies, so he never actually battled. It was almost always DC who sold the rights."
ME: Eh, no. Because it's Alan Moore - and no one is going to help Alan Moore. Because hello? Alan Moore.
Gaiman's reaction? "I cared. I had allies. And it's always easier not to make a movie than to make it."
ME: You're also not an asshole like Alan Moore. Seriously Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Warren Ellis are the assholes of the comic book industry. So is Scott Allie. ]
IT is a hilarious thread. Honestly, fans fighting with writers about what they should write, who they should cast, and that they don't understand their own work is ....LOL.
Also proof that art is like a child, it grows, and leaves you...and becomes something else after interacting with the world - when it returns to you, it's not quite yours any longer, no matter how much you wish it were.
2. Also found THIS on Twitter. It's a disclaimer for well any post you could possibly come up with.... I got distracted by it while looking for the Neil Gaiman post.