Netflix made its first casting announcement for the next The Sandman Series. Tom Sturridge (On the road) will play the title role of Dream of the Endless, an anthropomorphic embodiment of creativity itself, while Gwendoline Christie (The Game of Thrones, Star Wars The Force Awakens) will be the protagonist of Lucifer.
Warner Bros. has released a film adaptation of DC Comics’ The Sandman in Hollywood for years. Joseph Gordon Levitt was on board to produce and potentially star, at any given time. In 2019, HBO refused to buy the series (due to the “huge price tag,” according to the Hollywood Reporter) and Netflix stepped in to produce an 11-episode season.
Vivienne Acheampong joined Sturridge and Christie (The witches) as Lucienne, a female version of Dream’s loyal librarian, Lucien; Boyd Holbrook (Logan) like the Corinthian nightmare; Charles Dance (The Game of Thrones) as Roderick Burgess, a human magician; and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Yesterday) and Asim Chaudhry (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) like Cain and Abel, respectively.
From these functions, it seems reasonable to expect the Netflix series to cover the first arc of The Sandman, in which Dream breaks free from decades of imprisonment and sets out on a quest to recover his items of power that take him to Hell and back.
The Sandman it is also being adapted to the form of audiobook. Audible announced on Thursday that the series would return for the second and third seasons.