Just like the Audible’s audio adaptation released last year, Netflix’s upcoming live-action TV series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic series “Sandman” will boast an all-star cast.
New Line, Netflix and Warner Bros. Television are producing what will be the most expensive TV series to date based on a DC Comics property. As we know, Tom Sturridge is taking on the lead role of Dream/Morpheus. Until now though, the rest of the cast had yet to be revealed.
That changed today with the first seven key roles unveiled. Joining the now confirmed Sturridge is Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, Sanjeev Bhaskar as Cain, Asim Chaudhry as Abel and Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne (a gender-swapped Lucien).
The original comic ran for 75 issues from 1989-1996 and began with the accidental capture of Dream, the younger brother of Death, and the journey that begins when he is released seven decades later.
The series is headed into production in the wake of the success of an eleven-hour, twenty-episode Audible adaptation which starred James McAvoy as Morpheus and a cast that included Taron Egerton, Michael Sheen, Riz Ahmed, Andy Serkis and Miriam Margolyes.
That audio release only adapted the first three volumes of the graphic novel series. Now comes word that two more seasons have been ordered and are on the way in the form of “The Sandman: Act II” and “The Sandman: Act III”. No word on the cast or a potential release date as yet.
Source: Twitter