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 a different lifetime when the project had been in development hell since 1991.

There was even a time in 2013 when Joseph Gordon-Levitt was set to direct and star as Morpheus, however, what few know is that back in 1996, King of Pop, Michael Jackson wanted to play the lead character.

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