Sandman

The opening moments of Netflix’s The Sandman are heart-stopping. We watch a beautiful raven fly from the waking world of humans into the realm of the titular Sandman (Tom Sturridge). Angles bend impossibly, light from unknown sources dazzles the grounds, creatures of nightmares and fevers intermingle, an eternal library folds on itself. Yet this is our world, too, the one we enter when we close our eyes. In his voiceover, the Sandman mocks humans’ presumption that dreams remain innocuous: are we not affected by our…

If you’ve ever thought, Would Patton Oswalt be a good voice for a talking raven? Netflix’s The Sandman is here to answer your question. Whether it answers in the affirmative or the negative is, ultimately, in the eye of the beholder. But Sandman creator Neil Gaiman has said in a blog post that Oswalt was the first person they cast for the comic book adaptation, and he was very intentional with his pick. “The question was, could we find an actor who could make you care about a dead person who was now a bird in the…

Netflix’s fantasy series The Sandman opens with a small chunk of exposition explaining its protagonist Morpheus, the King of Dreams — which is much more than comics readers got when Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series launched in 1988. Even given the series’ small concession to an audience that may need upfront hooks to commit to the show, both the comics version and the Netflix version of the story leave a great deal for the audience to learn over time. And both versions parcel out that information slowly, as it becomes…

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https://madcavestudios.com/ By d. emerson eddy — “I don’t understand cricket. I wonder if anyone does.” In The Sandman #1, Dream is kidnapped by a group of magicians who were hoping to ensnare Death. They kept him imprisoned, causing havoc across the worlds as is detailed in that series. However, that issue also revealed that the universe tried to replace what was missing. It did so in the form of Wesley Dodds, the dreaming detective, who dressed up in a gas mask and trench coat and hat carrying around a sleep gun as…

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesTruly the nerds have inherited the earth, or at least Hollywood: this Comic-Con gave us the first look at the forthcoming adaptation of the tabletop role-playing game, a fantasy caper starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridgerton hottie Regé-Jean Page and Hugh Grant. While the trailer is a little light on hearty laughs, it has a) Grant as a baddie and b) is co-written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who made one of the most underrated comedies of…

Screenshot: NetflixThere have been numerous casting announcements for the Netflix adaption of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman leading up to San Diego Comic Con, and with each new addition the hype has only grown. From Gwendoline Christie’s Satan to Mark Hamil as Merv Pumpkinhead, and Thomas Sturridge’s haunting Dream/Morpheus, the cast is stellar, and the reveals so far have been pretty great.The Sandman | Official Trailer | NetflixThe titular Sandman, Morpheus himself, has escaped imprisonment, and is searching the world, and a…

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| Ahead of the launch of Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman on the 5th of August, DC Comics is offering American comics shops a new Sandman standee, featuring imagery of Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, the king of dreams. The standee is inteded to draw the "attention of customers towards the acclaimed legacy of The Sandman and its associated comic book series, currently available in a variety of formats." It is also compatible with DC's current comic book displays, which have featured The Batman and Black Adam – and you'll…

In a recent interview with Total Film, Neil Gaiman opened up about how long it has taken for an adaptation of "The Sandman" to actually get made. Gaiman, who is an executive producer on the new Netflix adaptation (via IMDb), told the outlet, "I didn't have faith that we'd always get here, but I had faith that the important thing was to stop bad versions being made. Once a bad version is made, you never quite come back from that." Gaiman elaborated on his latter point, revealing that there was one bad…