'Sandman' TV series from Neil Gaiman coming to Netflix

I Have tried hard to like Gaiman.

I recognize he's a decent writer. I acknowledge that his stories are well-done. I understand that people really like him.

However, I simply cannot bring myself to care. I just don't find his characters compelling or his plots engaging although the worlds he puts them in are very interesting.

I can't get into him either, r1.

What’s it about?

This scares me. The description is all wrong for the story of The Dream Lord. Gaiman was a shit showrunner on Good Omens, and whilst I love Sandman with all my heart, his novels are absolute bullshit.

Did anyone here like 'American Gods? I gave up the novel half way through as it just seemed a mishmash of every idea he had left over from Sandman thrown into a dull story. But referencing Gods for some kind of known reaction. God, give me a Clive Barker novel anyday.

So, love Sandman, but think this will be shit

When OP?

I can't bear Gaiman either.

I'm only disappointed it's going to be animation.

Hope it does better than The Swamp Thing.

R6 Don't get me wrong, I hate gaimans novels, but Sandman is very good. Easily, the only good thing he did. And how fucking annoying is Amaanda palmer, the cheap cunt

R7 ...Honey, where does it say it will be animated? That would be the best way to tell the story, (The Lord of Sleep does look different to whomever he is interacting with), but cannot find any mention of it being animated.

And the use of the term 'showrunner' makes it seem it shall be using mortals

r5 The deal has just been signed, so no date yet. However, it does say it will have 11 episodes (in its first season), which I forgot to include in the description.

r7 Pretty sure it's not going to be animated. Not with that price tag.

R10 Well, Preludes and Nocturnes is 6 issues, throw in The Sound of Her Wings, Maybe they will do some Dream Country stories and then head into Dolls House

This will be awful. I felt like the Good Omens film adaptation was so hollow and just did not convey the book's atmosphere at all, what is an adaptation of the Sandman comics going to look like? Who could they ever cast to make a convincing Morpheus?

R13 I thought Good Omens was more Douglas Adams than the book of Good Omens. Got up to episode 3 and quit after the cold open. Just crap

The book was more Terry than gaiman, but you are right, the tv version missed the dry attack on 'then' modern society.

And the problem with Morpheus is he looks different to everybody, and also takes different forms for how people know him, and what culture and time he is being depicted in.

But Ruby Rose must play Desire

[Quote] But Ruby Rose must play Desire

She's busy playing Batwoman.

Ben Wishaw for Dream.

Will there be ass fucking, though?

Cluracan was at it a fair bit, as I recall, R17; so was the Corinthian, though he was a touch problematic.

Please don't cast Jared Leto in any part for this

Please don't cast Jared Leto in any part for this

Please don't cast Jared Leto in any part for this

Amen

R18 Corinthian only kills males. But yeah, he does seem to like them young.

R15 Desire only turns up a few times, as is the case for most of the characters.

How do you pronounce his surname? Is he family?

Will Tom Ellis be playing Lucifer? The TV 'Lucy' is a far cry from the comic 'Lucifer Morningstar' so I really bloody hope not

Have been reading The Sandman new universe comic, The Dreaming. Sigh, they mentioned how it is apart of the Multiverse and I shuddered.

Daniel, the Lord of Dreams, has abandoned his kingdom, leaving its borders broken and bloody. Lucien, his faithful warden, can feel his own mind slipping away as the Dream King's realm decays around him. And the other residents of the Dreaming, from the monstrous and mercenary Dora to the gruff, unflappable Merv Pumpkinhead, are fighting among themselves to preserve what they can.

No surprise Danny Boy quit, his Mother was certifiable from the start. And His Dad being dead when he was conceived. His genes were shitty

Most of the series adapted from his fictions/novels/books are insufferable shit.

R25 Yep, we all seem agreed on that. His books are weak as fuck, he is no Clive Barker, that crazy bitch can write novels

Cast

Absolutely shit. Fanboy crap

I don't see how this can be done with a crapton of CGI. The casting is pretty good actually.