Johanna Constantine (Jenna Coleman), an occult detective specializing in exorcisms, is overwhelmed by the evil. His own nightmare, Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), escaped the Dreaming and set out to cause as much destruction as possible. In his absence, the Sleeping Sickness took over, leaving millions of people asleep with no dreams, no nightmares, just emptiness. Lucifer, played by “Game of Thrones” alum Gwendoline Christie, proves to be just one of Dream’s obstacles. “One minute you’re in Hell with Lucifer Morningstar and the next you’re in a homicidal orgy in America.” With ‘Sandman,’ though there is, to some extent, a protagonist in Morpheus, what he’s doing is shepherding you through the stories and dreams through others, through thousands of different kinds of humans and creatures and beings,” Sturridge said. “I think that normally, with these kinds of narratives, you’re following a hero. With the help of his librarian Lucienne (Vivienne Acheampong) and his raven Matthew (voiced by Patton Oswalt), Morpheus sets out to restore what once was. When he finally escapes, Dream returns to his kingdom, the Dreaming, to find it in shambles and his people mostly gone. Starring Sturridge as Dream or Morpheus or the titular Sandman or any number of nicknames, “The Sandman” opens with one of the seven Endless (a family of siblings made up of Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium) captured in an occult ritual and held hostage for almost 100 years when he refuses to grant their wishes. Netflix’s version, with Gaiman himself at the helm, was recently released. And the way I looked, I would walk down the hallway of the studio and everyone would be like, ‘Dude, what are you wearing? You look like a freak.’”Īn on-screen adaptation of Gaiman’s DC Comics series, which published 75 issues from January 1989 to March 1996, has been stuck in developmental hell for decades. “When he walks through the streets of New York and through the streets of London, no one should bat an eyelid. “Because the most important thing for me is that Morpheus is representative of us,” the 36-year-old British actor, who stars as the Dream King, said. Tom Sturridge at first tried to look like the Morpheus from Neil Gaiman’s comic book series: translucent white skin, a mop of hair standing on end, pitch black eyes with stars in the center.īut he and Gaiman realized that to bring the “Sandman” protagonist to life, he had to be able to walk among humans.
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