![]() But The Invisibles, the most famous book and maybe memorable is called Apocalipstick. "At one time my producer was saying, 'You should pursue that.' I get a little wary with things that are going to cost too much money because more money means more trouble, more jockeying for money and effects and it just gets unwieldy. "I think I would be up for writing an Invisibles series," Mitchell says. When asked if he'd like to be involved in adaptations of any other of those seminal comics, Mitchell names The Invisibles, noting that it was a project he considered pursuing previously. You don't go into their psyche too hard, right? You just have revenge and you have eeehh, and that's not exactly my thing." Neil was always interested in the myth as it related to someone very human and modern myths, whereas George Martin is a bit more like Beowulf. ![]() He didn't come from, let's say, from a George Martin point of view where sometimes it feels like the hardware is more important than the software, if you know what I mean. He took all of these myths and made narratives out of all of them. ![]() Neil went on to become his own Joseph Campbell in a way. "They came out mostly in the '90s, little of 2000s sometimes, or late '80s, and they revolutionized comics, and they, of course, spawned a thousand other titles who were inspired by them. "It's interesting because the major adult comic series, the seminal ones, were, Watchmen, and The Invisibles," Mitchell says. spoke to Mitchell ahead of the series premiere and he shared his appreciation for the work of Gaiman and his peers, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. But it turns out Mitchell's love of comics isn't exclusive to Gaiman's work on The Sandman. The show is hardly Mitchell's first brush with Neil Gaiman's work, having directed the 2018 film How to Talk to Girls at Parties, based on one of Gaiman's short stories. Mitchell plays Hal, the drag queen who owns the house where Rose Walker stays in the first season of Netflix's The Sandman. The Sandman star John Cameron Mitchell once considered pursuing another popular Vertigo Comics series, The Invisibles, and would still like to write a series adapting the comic.
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