Netflix has announced the principal cast of their series adaptation of Neil Gaiman's epic comic The Sandman. Deadline reports Tom Sturridge (Sweetbitter) has been cast in the lead role as Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming.
Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thornes) is playing Lucifer (the character who is also the basis for the Netflix series of the same name). Vivienne Acheampong (The Witches) is playing Lucienne, librarian of the Dreaming (portrayed in the comics as Lucien). Boyd Holdbrook (Logan) is playing The Corinthian, a dangerous escaped nightmare. Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) plays Roderick Burgess, a practitioner of black magic who imprisons Dream in the initial story arc. Asim Chaudhry (Black Mirror) and Sanjeev Bhaskar (Unforgotten) are cast as Abel and Cain, the keepers of the House of Secrets and the House of Mystery.
Gaiman's DC/Vertigo comics series was seen as a high-water mark for comics in the 1990s and early 2000s, weaving fantasy, history and literature into a complex storytelling fantasy that overlapped with the larger DC Universe. It was one of the tentpoles of the Vertigo line of comics which aimed to serve an audience that wanted stories outside of the superhero narratives that had captured mainstream comics.Allan Heinberg (Grey’s Anatomy) is showrunner and executive producer with Gaiman and David S. Goyer (Batman Begins). All three are writing episodes for the series.
The announcement does not reveal when fans can expect to see the series on Netflix.
