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These audio books are going to be incredible!

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Ray Porter, the voice of Darkseid in the Snyder Cut has also signed up tot his audio book project.

 

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Netflix's The Sandman Series Aiming for October Production Start

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Netflix hopes to step into the Dreaming in October. David S. Goyer is working with showrunner Allan Heinberg and creator Neil Gaiman to together update Gaiman's beloved The Sandman comic book series for the 21st century as a Netflix television show. The coronavirus pandemic has delayed those efforts. Goyer said on his spotlight panel during Comic-Con@Home that Sandman should have begun filming in May. Now he says that series, as well as his adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation for Apple TV+, is looking to begin production in October. That is, assuming the coronavirus pandemic allows such productions to begin, of which there's no guarantee.

 

"The two things that were occupying most of my time prior to lockdown are these big-budget streaming adaptations of both Sandman and Isaac Asimov's Foundation," Goyer says. "Foundation was a little further along. We filmed about 40% of the first season when we were forced to shut down, and Sandman was supposed to start shooting in May. I believe we were in the early scripting stage. Allan Heinberg is the day-to-day showrunner on that while I'm handling Foundation and casting and things like that. So actually, ironically, both projects are hoping to start shooting again in October."

 

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Doctor Who and Black Mirror director Toby Haynes has reportedly joined Netflix's Sandman TV series for an unspecified number of episodes

 

Doctor Who director Toby Haynes has reportedly joined production on Netflix's upcoming TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. Based off the best-selling comic series that ran from 1989 to 1996, the show will follow the dark adventures of Morpheus, also known as Dream, an ancient deity who rules over the dream world. After being imprisoned for seventy years, Morpheus sets out to rebuild his fallen kingdom and reclaim his place as the King of Dreams.

 

Per The Iluminerdi, Haynes has reportedly joined the cast of directors for an unspecified number of episodes. Haynes is primarily known for his work on the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, where his directorial contributions include the epic two-part finale to season 5, "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang." He also headed the Emmy Award-winning episode of Black Mirror, "USS Callister," a dark spoof of Star Trek featuring a stark warning of the dangers of consciousness-replicating technology.

 

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The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman recently revealed on Twitter that Netflix’s adaptation of his acclaimed comic will begin shooting in three weeks, and Collider has exclusively learned that Tom Sturridge is in talks to star.

 

The epic drama hails from Warner Bros. TV, and Netflix gave the series an 11-episode order. Production was delayed due to the pandemic, which gave Gaiman and his co-writers time to get the scripts into the best shape possible. Gaiman is executive producing with David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) and writer/showrunner Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman).

 

Sandman‘s original 75-issue run followed the adventures of Dream — who is also known as Morpheus and Sandman — the lord of dreams who is part of a mysterious group of immortal beings known as The Endless, who personify universal concepts such as death, desire, destiny, delirium, despair, and destruction, in addition to dream.

 

Sources say that Sturridge tested for the title role earlier this year along with Tom York (Poldark) and Colin Morgan (Merlin) before emerging victorious.

 

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Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's acclaimed comic book series Sandman is reportedly looking at Liam Hemsworth or Dacre Montgomery for the role of The Corinthian, a nigh-indestructible nightmare come to life who kills his victims, possesses their bodies, and physically transforms them along the way. The character, who has teeth for eyes and white hair (those being the characteristics his victims take on once possessed by him), was created by Gaiman and artist Mike Dreiberg during the first arc of the comic, "A Doll's House." In the recent Audible audio drama, The Corinthian was voiced by Star Wars veteran Riz Ahmed.

 

The role is down to this pair (at least right now), according to a report at The Illuminerdi. It appears from recent casting breakdowns that The Corinthian will play a significant role in the series, although whether that will be like the comics -- where he was destroyed and then recreated "with some changes" by Morpheus -- or more like a standard long-term antagonist is anybody's guess.

 

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As teased in September, the filming of Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman, the seminal DC Comics series written by Neil Gaiman, is now underway. Gaiman confirmed on Twitter that filming began on Thursday. He tweeted, "Oh, we started shooting on Thursday. Dr John Hathaway has brought a book from the museum in which he works, to Roderick Burgess. But you're right, it's going to be time to announce some casting soon." Gaiman's tweet describes the opening scene of The Sandman #1, in which museum curator John Hathaway, under duress, delivers a book to occultist Roderick Burgess. Burgess uses the knowledge in that text in his attempt to capture Death of the Endless. He instead captures Dream, setting The Sandman's story into motion.

 

As for the second part of Gaiman's tweet, Netflix hasn't announced any of the series' cast despite beginning production. It seems those announcements are coming soon. One rumor suggests that Tom Sturridge is the frontrunner to play the lead role as Morpheus. At the same time, another report says Netflix is eying Liam Hemsworth and Dacre Montgomery to play a different key role, the rogue nightmare called The Corinthian.

 

 

 

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Can't wait for this to happen. Too bad there well only be two seasons though since Netflix pretty much cancels most series by their third season

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It's sounding like all the main casting is done. They are just holding it back for now.

 

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Through all the trials tribulations, different scripts and stories and at one point the Joseph Gordon Levitt HBO movie (or was it series) I can't believe this is happening.

If they do this story justice it could really blow up.  Sandman has such a huge built in audience that's been frothing at the mouth for more content.

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5 minutes ago, Pete Marino said:

Through all the trials tribulations, different scripts and stories and at one point the Joseph Gordon Levitt HBO movie (or was it series) I can't believe this is happening.

It was going to be a movie. But they couldn't figure out how to fit all that fantastic story into one film (and rightly so).

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If they do this story justice it could really blow up.  Sandman has such a huge built in audience that's been frothing at the mouth for more content.

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Production is underway on Netflix's adaptation of the Neil Gaiman's classic comic series Sandman. The prolific writer has already teased some connections to DC characters that could appear in the show, and now he's offering some hints about what storylines they'll be adapting in the show's first season. While speaking with Yahoo in a new interview, Gaiman also reflected on getting to see the first footage from the show, noting: “I've been watching dailies, but nothing produced the profound, emotional reaction on me that watching a camera test of our Morpheus in his glass prison did. I saw him and said, ‘Oh, this is Sandman.”

 

Gaiman confirmed that some of the stories that will be included in the first season are "24 Hours," the story set in a diner as its clientele begin to go mad and slowly murder each other; “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” about a woman addicted to Dream's sand pouch but which also features DC'sJohn Constantine; “A Hope in Hell,” a tale of Morpheus going down to the firey pit itself, and “Collectors," a story set entirely at a serial killer convnetion.

 

“It will be scary,” Gaiman said. “But it will be lots of other things, too, because the joy of Sandman is that it’s a lot of different things in the soup, and you can taste all the flavors.”

 

A Sandman TV series has been a long time coming for fans of the series but for Gaiman as well, who opened up about the various pitches for an adaptation that he's been privy to in the past, some of which made him chuckle in the interview.

 

“I have seen bad Sandman TV series proposals,” Gaiman saod. “Some of them are from incredibly talented people who said, ‘You can’t make this into TV!’ About 10 years ago, there was a fantastic showrunner who pitched a Sandman TV show that didn’t introduce Morpheus until the fourth episode!” Gaiman’s choice to wait paid off, as he was able to assemble a creative team — including David Goyer and Allan Heinberg — who were committed to adapting the comic book, not reinventing it. “It feels so amazingly Sandman,” Gaiman raves. “You won’t believe how Sandman it is.”

 

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