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charliesmumI was just reading Neil Gaiman's blog - http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp
And someone asked him about which version of Spread a Little Happiness did he prefer, and mentioned Sting's version, but thought that came out after Neil wrote the song into one of his Sandman stories. Neil said this:
"No, the Sting version came out in -- well, I remember it as 1982, but it might be '83 -- to accompany the film of Dennis Potter's "Brimstone and Treacle" (a Sting performance that Alan Moore sort of used in his creation of John Constantine, and which John Totleben used as his visual starting point for the character) -"
And I'm bringing this up to point out how absurd it is to have Keanu Reeves playing John Constantine in the upcoming movie. Sting may be a bit too old now (but probably not) and if they didn't want him James Marsters would have been a brilliant Constantine. Stupid Hollywood. They never take my advice about anything.
And someone asked him about which version of Spread a Little Happiness did he prefer, and mentioned Sting's version, but thought that came out after Neil wrote the song into one of his Sandman stories. Neil said this:
"No, the Sting version came out in -- well, I remember it as 1982, but it might be '83 -- to accompany the film of Dennis Potter's "Brimstone and Treacle" (a Sting performance that Alan Moore sort of used in his creation of John Constantine, and which John Totleben used as his visual starting point for the character) -"
And I'm bringing this up to point out how absurd it is to have Keanu Reeves playing John Constantine in the upcoming movie. Sting may be a bit too old now (but probably not) and if they didn't want him James Marsters would have been a brilliant Constantine. Stupid Hollywood. They never take my advice about anything.
