It’s been a little over a year since Netflix announced an 11-episode series The Sandman, based on Neil Gaiman’s DC Comic. The epic drama, from Warner Bros. TV, was influenced by the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down Hollywood production in mid-March. .
“Through COVID, everything – like all other televisions made around the world – has hit the pause button,” Gaiman said during the DC FanDome event on Saturday. He said that The Sandman team took advantage of the delay “to get the scripts as close to perfect as we could.”
With movies and TV series slowly returning to production in the midst of the pandemic, “we are starting to cast again,” said Gaiman of the Netflix series.
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At the event, Gaiman revealed a detail about the TV adaptation, which he is producing executive with writer / showrunner Allan Heinberg and David Goyer.
“It’s still going to start in 1916, but the thing that happened in Sandman No.1, the point where it started is not 1888, it is now,” he said. “(This) gives us great freedom … That’s very liberating.”
Sandman cartels a long, poetic story arc about his original run of 75 editions that followed the adventures of Morpheus, lord of dreams and member of a pantheon of immortal beings called The Endless, who personally personify certain universal concepts that, together with dream, death, desire included, destiny, delirium, despair, and destruction.
An adaptation of DC Comics’ popular comic strip ‘Vertigo Impression’ was originally conceived as a film starring and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He stepped out of the function three years ago after creative differences. The project even goes further back when Gaiman said there was an adjustment in the works while he was at Comic-Con. Gaiman and Goyer were also involved in the film adaptation.
Gaiman’s TV portfolio of adaptations also includes American gods on Starz like the new Amazon series Good omens.
