Tag: The Sandman
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‘The Sandman’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix
“The Sandman” is returning to Netflix. The streaming platform has officially renewed the Neil Gaiman series based on the DC Comics universe, expanding the franchise with new episodes based on other stories from the graphic novels.Leading up to Wednesday’s evening announcement, there was rampant speculation among Netflix subscribers about whether “The Sandman” would be renewed…
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Dead Boy Detectives: Everything We Know So Far About The HBO Max Series
Neil Gaiman is on a roll these days, with his characters appearing in “Doom Patrol” on HBO Max and the Netflix adaptation of “The Sandman” both garnering audience and critical acclaim. News regarding the upcoming “Doom Patrol” spin-off “Dead Boy Detectives” just keeps on rolling, and it’s high time that we finally put on our…
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The Sandman VFX Artists Break Down the Show’s Best Visual Effects
The road to a successful adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s
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The Sandman: How John Dee Serves as an Allusion to Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Great writers never take the work of their predecessors with a grain of salt. And there is a very good reason for that. The worth of contemporary writers, those that genuinely deserve critical attention, is determined in relation to the standards of the canon. Neil Gaiman not only drives inspiration from ancient tales, legends, and…
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Has The Sandman Showed Off its Best Stories Too Soon?
Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for Netflix’s The Sandman Season 1 as well as Neil Gaiman’s Comic Book Series.Netflix’s The Sandman is ending its first month in streaming, and it’s still a hit. The show only recently lost its status as the streaming’s number one show in the world, but new viewers keep…
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The Sandman: Michael Jackson Wanted to Play Morpheus in Early Adaptation
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman is topping Netflix’s global charts for three consecutive weeks now. The King of Dreams finally fulfilled our dream of watching a faithful comic adaptation on screen and is rightfully gaining all the praise from fans and critics for it. While we now enjoy the series on screen, it almost seems like…
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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…
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The Sandman: How Neil Gaiman’s Willingness to Reframe Characters Led to Success
By the time Neil Gaiman published the final issue of his comic book The Sandman in 1996, he’d created a world populated with a wide array of characters, each with a significant purpose for the overall story. Decades after the successful comic book run ended, Gaiman finally found the right opportunity to adapt his story…
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Did Sandman’s Constantine Gender-Flip Pay Off?
Adapting a work as influential as The Sandman is never an easy task. The Netflix series even had direct input from author and creator Neil Gaiman himself, so the show wouldn’t wander far from the source material. Naturally what you see on a screen will always be different from what you read on a comic…
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Neil Gaiman Already Knows Who Should Play Dream’s Son In Sandman
Now that “The Sandman” has dropped its excellent bonus episode, fans are anxiously awaiting news of the show being picked up for a second season. Netflix has yet to make a decision unfortunately, but that hasn’t stopped creator Neil Gaiman and showrunner Allan Heinberg from plotting season 2 and beyond. Both previously touched on which…