Neil Gaiman Promises Netflix’s THE SANDMAN Series Will Be Scary
Mike Sprague
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Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman has finally started shooting. And today Gaiman promises the upcoming series will be scary.
He tells Yahoo!: “It will be scary. But it will be lots of other things, too, because the joy of Sandman is that it’s a lot of different things in the soup, and you can taste all the flavors.” … [This Netflix adaptation] feels so amazingly Sandman. You won’t believe how Sandman it is… I can say we had 200-odd auditions for Morpheus before we found someone that we really liked. And then we watched another 300 or 400 auditions, but it was clear that we’d found the one person capable of saying those lines and making them actually work. So we hired him!“
While Gaiman doesn’t come out and say who’s playing the lead, rumor has it Tom Sturridge plays Dream with either Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) or Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games) as Corinthian, the first season’s main antagonist.
Gaiman is executive producing the 11-episode series with David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, Blade) and writer/showrunner Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, Scandal).
The Sandman is a story about stories and how Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, is captured and learns that change is inevitable. Morpheus is one of the seven Endless with Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium /Delight, and Destruction / The Prodigal. The comic series ran 75 issues from 1989-1996. Its artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli, with lettering by Todd Klein and covers by Dave McKean.
We’ll make sure to keep up to date on this project and pass along further updates as we hear them. In the meantime, make sure to hit us up and let us know what you think in the comments below or over on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!
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