Netflix’s The Sandman: Full Cast Unveils for DC Series

With the production well underway during the first season of The Sandman, Netflix has finally announced the lead cast of the DC adaptation. Tom Sturridge (Velvet Buzzsaw) stars in the series as Dream (aka Morpheus), the ruler of the etheric world known as The Dreaming. The cast also features two veterans of Game of Thrones, with Gwendoline Christie playing Lucifer Morningstar and Charles Dance playing occultist Roderick Burgess. . Narcos star Boyd Holbrook will play The Corinthian, a rogue nightmare serial killer created by Morpheus.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for a look at all the cast members so far and how they compare to their peers in the comics:

We assume that more cast announcements will follow in the coming weeks, as Netflix has announced other major roles such as Dream’s sister Death. The streamer has also not yet announced a release date for the first season in ten episodes.

The Sandman is an adaptation of the DC horror / fantasy cartoon created by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Keith. Gaiman is executive producer of the series with Allan Heinberg and David Goyer. Heinberg also serves as presenter. Before Netflix released the series, The Sandman spent years in the development hell, including a phase where Joseph Gordon-Levitt was committed to producing and playing an adaptation.

“For the past thirty – three years, the Sandman characters have been breathing and walking around and chatting in my head,” Gaiman said in a statement. “I’m incredibly happy that they finally have to step out of my head and into reality. . I can not wait until the people out there see what we saw, as Dream and the rest of them take flesh, and the flesh belongs to the best actors out there. It’s amazing, and I’m so grateful to the actors and all of The Sandman’s collaborators – Netflix, Warner Bros., DC, to Allan Heinberg and David Goyer, and the legion of artisans and geniuses on the show – for making the wildest of all my dreams in reality. ”

According to Gaiman, the Netflix series will make significant changes to the source material, including updating the current environment for the 21st century rather than 1989, when the comic originally began.

Interestingly, The Sandman is the first time that Lucifer Morningstar’s DC Comics incarnation has been played by a woman. The character was previously played by Peter Stormare in Constantine of 2005, Tom Ellis in the Lucifer TV series and Michael Sheen in Audible’s audio drama adaptation of The Sandman. Although The Sandman’s Lucifer is usually portrayed as male in the comics, it is an androgynous figure who, according to Gaiman, has been confirmed to be a young David Bowie. Unfortunately, despite the Lucifer series moving from Fox to Netflix, Christie’s cast seems to eliminate the possibility of the two programs that exist in the same universe.

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