Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt insists his new movie Sandman will avoid ''ordinary cliches."
The 34-year-old actor revealed his latest comic book adaptation will stay clear of typical movie formulas and said that the movie is taking longer to write because of this.
He said: ''It's going to be like a grand spectacular action film, but that relies on none of those same old ordinary cliches.
''So, that's why it's taking a lot time to write, but it's going to be really good.''
Speaking about adapting the movie for the big screen, he told MTV: "It's slow but steady. It's a really complicated adaptation because those comics, they're brilliant. But they're not written as a whole.
''It's not like Watchmen, which is a graphic novel that has a beginning, middle, and end. Sandman was written over the course of whatever - I forget exactly, six or seven years.
''One at a time. One little 20-page issue at a time. And to try to take that and make it into something that's a feature film - a movie that has a beginning, middle, and end - is complicated.''
