Michael Jackson Begged Warner Bros. to Star in Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’

The Sandman” almost starred the King of Pop.Creator Neil Gaiman revealed during Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that Grammy winner Michael Jackson called the then-president of Warner Bros.

to ask to star in a 1990s TV adaptation of the comic book series.

Jackson was set on playing Morpheus, the role which Tom Sturridge now portrays in the Netflix series.“By 1996, I was being taken to Warners, where the then-president of Warner Bros sat me down and told me that Michael Jackson had phoned him the day before and asked him if he could star as Morpheus in ‘The Sandman,’” Gaiman shared.

“So, there was a lot of interest in this, and they knew that it was one of the Crown Jewels and what did I think? And I was like, ‘Ooh.’”Gaiman’s comic book series ran from 1989 to 1996, with TV adaptations circulating as early

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