The Sandman is close to making its Netflix debut and is executive produced by Gaiman, Allan Heinberg, and David S. Goyer, with Heinberg also serving as the Season 1 showrunner
According to a Netflix announcement, The Sandman’s first season was released on August 5, 2022.
For The Sandman, Netflix has cast many highly talented actors in numerous significant roles. Of course, Tom Sturridge, whose most notable prior roles include On The Road and Far from the Madding Crowd
The show’s central character will be Dream (Sturridge), a formidable character known as Morpheus, the King of Dreams, Kai’ckul, Oneiros, the Lord of the Dreaming, and of course, Sandman
The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes, which covers Dream’s arrest by Burgess and his occult followers in the early 1900s and his ensuing 105 years in captivity
Then Dream embarks on a journey to recover his three power symbols—a ruby, a headpiece, and a pouch of sand—and during this journey, significant figures like Death, Lucifer, and Dee are here
On October 15, 2020, the first season of Netflix’s The Sandman began production. Gaiman announced the start date on his Twitter
Tom Sturridge plays Morpheus, the monarch of the Dreaming realm who is abducted. Also, imprisoned for a century in “The Sandman.”