Just thought you should know that at Neil Gaiman's signing in New York this evening, he was doing a question and answer session and the inevitable Sandman movie question came up. Neil told the story for the hundredth time, but when he mentioned all that Jon Peters horribleness (quoting that dreaded opening line, and giving a hilarious synopsis of the rest) he announced that a summary of the Jon Peters script could be found at aint-it-cool-news.com. I thought that was pretty cool, so I'd let you know.

He also ran through the progress of all his current movie projects, including (hopefully i'll remember all this right) Sandman (currently dead, thank god), Neverwhere (he's working with jim henson productions, and he's talking to a big-name director that he's very happy with, but he couldn't reveal who just yet. also, apparently while in New York he was going to try to convince the film-makers to set the movie in London rather than the big apple, which would definitely be a smart move), Good Omens (working with the producers of "wilde," can't remember the names - he also said he had a director who he thought to be "perfect for the story," but he can't give names until the deal has been signed), and Death: The High Cost of Living (he said things were looking good for the death movie, he's looking into some subsidiary of warner bros. - who unfortunately own sandman, death, etc. - to put out the film in a hopefully good way). That's about it, movie-wise. Later...

xott p.s. - this may be old news, but roger avary posted his side of the sandman script story at http://www.avary.com/rogeravary/journal/10-25-98.html including the full text of his draft of the script, which is actually not bad.