The High Cost of Living - movie?

Curious about any possible plans for a Sandman movie, I consulted the internets and found this on Wikipedia:

"Throughout the late 1990s, a movie adaptation of the comic was periodically planned by Warner Bros, parent company of DC Comics. Roger Avery was originally attached to direct after the success of Pulp Fiction collaborating with Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio in 1996 on a revision of their first script draft, which merged the Preludes and Nocturnes storyline with that of The Doll's House. Avary intended the film to be in part visually inspired by animator Jan Svankmajer's work. Avary was fired after disagreements over the creative direction with executive producer Jon Peters, best known for Batman (1989) and Superman Lives. It was due to their meeting on the Sandman movie project that Avary and Gaiman collaborated one year later on the script for Beowulf. The project carried on through several more writers and scripts. A later draft by William Farmer, reviewed on the Internet at Aint it Cool News, was met with scorn from fans. Gaiman called the last screenplay that Warner Brothers would send him "...not only the worst Sandman script I've ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I've ever read."Gaiman also has said that his dissatisfaction with how his characters were being treated had dissuaded him from writing any more stories involving the Endless, although he has since written Endless Nights. By 2001 the project had become stranded in development hell. In a Q&A panel at Comic-Con 2007, Gaiman remarked: "I'd rather see no Sandman movie made than a bad Sandman movie. But I feel like the time for a Sandman movie is coming soon. We need someone who has the same obsession with the source material as Peter Jackson had with Lord of the Rings or Sam Raimi had with Spider-Man."

Gaiman is currently working on a movie adaptation of The High Cost of Living." - Wikipedia 'The Sandman (Vertigo).

What, what?! I agree with Gaiman and thank the lord he's using more sense with The Sandman Series than he did with Stardust (cringe).

Just found more:

"Death and Me is a film in development based upon Death: The High Cost of Living. The concept is that, once every century, the embodiment of Death is incarnated as a mortal woman for a single day to experience what she takes from others. Gaiman wrote the screenplay himself, and will also be making his directorial debut. Guillermo del Toro will serve as executive producer. Gaiman spent several days on the set of del Toro's film Hellboy II: The Golden Army to get pointers on how to direct.

Other than two additional scenes at the beginning (set in a Tibetan monastery and Alaska), and a move from New York City to London for the main setting, the screenplay is relatively unchanged from the comic script.

After being in development hell for several years, work on it was renewed in 2007, but quickly derailed again due to the WGA strikes. According to Gaiman, the studio "may still be New Line, but Warner Independant is keen on it too." Shia LaBeouf may have a role in the film, possibly as the lead character Sexton, due to his role in helping the movie come about.^"

Shia LaBeouf?! Not him again... Is he going to consistently plaster himself over every eagerly anticipated nerdy/reminiscent film that comes out over the next twenty years or so? Transformers, Indiana Jones, now a Sandman film... Maybe I'm being hard on the guy. Maybe it's because I don't like him.