We finally have some footage from one of our most anticipated adaptations! Netflix shared a scene from The Sandman as part of their #TUDUM event, and even though it’s quite short it feels like a gift to our ravenous eyeballs.
The series will be executive produced by Neil Gaiman, Allan Heinberg, and David S. Goyer, and stars Sweetbitter‘s Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, and, given what we see of him in this scene, he certainly has the vibe down. We also get a look at Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, the silly, silly man who tries to conjure Death, and gets her brother Dream instead.
No release date yet, but you can while away the time checking out more of the ridiculously good cast here!
This gave me goosebumps… The swirling mist when they summon Dream actually reminded me of some of the weird color experiments in Overture. Really nice. My only peeve is that I really miss Morpheus having his balck, deep, weird eyes.
I’ve heard this version will update the present day of the story to ca. 2021, meaning Dream will have to be imprisoned over 100 years if he was caught in 1916. Presumably the little kid we see briefly is Burgess’ son Alex, who would have to start out a lot younger than he was in the comic in order to conceivably still be alive when Dream gets out.
Rumour has it this isn’t Tom Sturridge. We all know how Gaimen likes to have as much creative control over any screen adaptation of his work as possible (while pretending otherwise) so much so that here he’s decided to play the main role himself.
The CGI is a big improvement on ‘The Irishman’ anyhow.
Looking forward to seeing Dave Mckean’s involvement in this. I believe he’s doing the opening title imagery which should be pretty spectacular.
Good grief, those are ATTACK Cheekbones and no error! (Mind you, no wonder Dream stayed locked up for the better part of a century when his original gaoler is played by the Mighty Charles Dance!).
I was a bit shocked at the fact that this dude looks more like comic book Morpheus than comic book Morpheus looks like comic book Morpheus.