The world was taken by storm when Neil Gaiman reportedly said that he is eyeing on "Thor" villain Tom Hiddleston to play "Morpheus" the Lord of dreams in the upcoming live action movie adaptation of his hit classic novel "Sandman."

In an interview with Radio Times, the 54-year-old English author gamely talked about the development of the Warner Bros. film.

"It's a funny thing with Morpheus. Again, it's that thing where you look around and think, 'Yes this person would be a fantastic person', and then time passes," Gaiman explained to the publication. "There was a time Johnny Depp would've been a great Morpheus, but now he's too old and it's fine. I think the first time I saw Benedict was as Sherlock Holmes, I thought, 'wow, that's incredibly Morpheus'. And fans probably thought the same because they immediately started doing fan-art, meshing the two of them up."

While, Cumberbatch could no longer take the role as he's committed into doing Marvel's "Doctor Strange" movie, Gaiman reveals that he has a backup.

"Then again, Tom Hiddleston is still out there! And the truth is, as far as I'm concerned, anybody who sounds English with great cheekbones can probably pull it off."

However, Gaiman immediately clarified that he was just joking about the possible casting for "Sandman" in his Twitter account.

It's not true. It was a joke in an interview I'm afraid RT @PickleAM: Please oh please let it be true that @twhiddleston will play Morpheus!

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) December 17, 2014

While, the author of the best selling novel "Sandman" was joking about the possible casting for the movie adaptation he is however serious about his involvement in writing the script.

"I really am [glad to have more input]," he says. "My position on it has always been, for over 25 years now, I would rather see no Sandman movie than a bad Sandman movie. A couple of times, people say, 'It's a crime there's never been a Sandman movie', and a couple of times, to be honest, I have thrown my body in front of a bus on a couple of bad ones over the years. I'm just happy that no bad Sandman movie has ever been made. But I'm really hoping that a good one will be. They're a good team. And with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in charge, his instincts are good and he loves the material. He wants it to be true to the material."

And when asked about the development of "Sandman" script, Neil Gaiman shared his experience about writing the movie.

"Every now and then, I'll come in and last time I was in was earlier this year spending a day in a hotel room with Joe, and going over everything and answering questions with him and so on and so forth. So they've written a script. I got a phone call about two, three weeks ago from Joe and David saying, 'Jack did a script, we read it, we want some things done to it. We want you to see it, but not this version. The next version will be in three weeks and then you'll be the first person to see it.' So I am now a week before seeing the script. It's going to come in just before Christmas. I'm nervous, I'm on tenterhooks. But do I have good feelings? Yeah I do."