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      Review: Netflix’s exquisite The Sandman is the stuff dreams are made of

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 29 August, 2022 - 15:35 · 1 minute

    Neil Gaiman's classic "unfilmable" graphic novel series gets the adaptation he always wanted.

    Enlarge / Neil Gaiman's classic "unfilmable" graphic novel series gets the adaptation he always wanted. (credit: Netflix)

    Like many nerds of a certain age, I have long adored Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel series; it was an enormous influence on my younger self. So I was thrilled to hear of Netflix's planned adaptation when it was announced in 2019 —but I also experienced some trepidation given the past misguided efforts to bring the story to the screen. That trepidation was unwarranted because The Sandman is a triumph. It's everything I had hoped to see in an adaption, and it has been well worth the wait.

    (Warning: Some spoilers for the original graphic novels and the Netflix series below.)

    The titular "sandman" is Dream , but he is also called Morpheus, among other names. He is one of seven entities known as the Endless. (The other Endless are Destiny, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Death.) Gaiman's 75-issue revival of the DC character is an odd mix of mythology, fantasy, horror, and history, rife with literary references and a fair bit of dark humor. There really is nothing quite like it, and the series proved to be hugely popular and enduring. One standalone story , "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ( The Sandman No. 19) even won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, the only time a comic has been so honored.

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      GoT alums among announced cast for Netflix Sandman adaptation

      Jennifer Ouellette · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 28 January, 2021 - 18:10

    Tom Sturridge has snagged the coveted role of Dream, aka Morpheus, in the Netflix adaptation of <em>The Sandman</em>.

    Enlarge / Tom Sturridge has snagged the coveted role of Dream, aka Morpheus, in the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman . (credit: DC Comics)

    At long last, Netflix has announced several cast members for its hotly anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's award-winning graphic novel series Sandman . As Deadline Hollywood reports , Tom Sturridge ( Being Julia, Pirate Radio ) snagged the coveted role of Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, while Game of Thrones alums Gwendoline Christie and Charles Dance will play a gender-swapped Lucifer and the charlatan magician Roderick Burgess, respectively.

    (Mild spoilers for the graphic novel series below.)

    As we've reported previously , the titular "sandman" is Dream, aka Morpheus, among other names. He is one of seven entities known as the Endless, and he is seeking to set right his past mistakes. The other Endless are Destiny, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Death, portrayed as a perky punk/goth young woman. They became almost as popular as Dream himself (especially Death) and were featured in several spinoff comics.  The series opens when Morpheus, the King of Dreams, escapes from a 70-year imprisonment by an occultist (who actually wanted to capture Dream's sibling Death but trapped the Sandman by mistake).

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