Netflix’s The Sandman: Full cast revealed for DC series

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

Check out the slideshow gallery below to see all the cast members revealed so far and how they compare to their comics colleagues:

We assume that more cast ads will come in the coming weeks, as Netflix has yet to reveal other important roles, such as Dream’s sister, Death. The streamer has yet to reveal a release date for the first 10-episode season.

The Sandman is an adaptation of the DC horror / fantasy comics created by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Keith. Gaiman is executive producer on the series, along with Allan Heinberg and David Goyer. Heinberg is also acting as a showrunner. Before Netflix gave the go-ahead for the series, The Sandman spent years in development hell, including a phase when Joseph Gordon-Levitt was hired to produce and star in a film adaptation.

“For the past thirty-three years, the Sandman characters have breathed, walked and spoken in my head,” said Gaiman in a statement. “I am incredibly happy that now, finally, they are out of my head and in reality. I can’t wait until the people out there can see what we’ve seen as Dream and the rest of them get meat, and the meat belongs to some of the best actors out there. This is surprising, and I am very grateful to the actors and all the collaborators of The Sandman – Netflix, Warner Bros., DC, Allan Heinberg and David Goyer, and the legions of artisans and geniuses of the show – for doing the wildest of all. my dreams come true. “

According to Gaiman, the Netflix series will make significant changes to the source material, including updating the current scenario for the 21st century instead of 1989, when the comic originally debuted.

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

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