Announced at Netflix Geeked 2022 ;D
Bonus: Mark Hamill will be voicing Merv Pumpkinhead in THE SANDMAN
Bonus: Mark Hamill will be voicing Merv Pumpkinhead in THE SANDMAN
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Sandman is coming to Netflix on August 5, 2022
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Looks really interesting but my god did Twitter do that trailer a disservice lol, the quality kept changing back and forth for me
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I have confidence on it. More worried with One Piece honestly.
I will not waiver in my belief that this tale would've been FAR better served by a high-quality animated series rather than a live-action one.
I think because of the talent involved I feel they will nail it. It looks good so far.
Fucking love Sandman, but I can see it being realllllly hard to translate to the screen. Trailer looks decent enough, so we'll just have to see.
not the same actors just the characters. If I recall correctly they were huge part of the series
John was more of a cameo in the comic, but it looks like he has been replaced by Johanna Constantine for the show.
This looks awesome. The graphic novels got a little predictable and boring so I quit, but I am down for this.
yeah but I asked the thread to be closed a duplicate anyways
Sandman is coming to Netflix on August 5, 2022 News - Video/Streaming
Announced at Netflix Geeked 2022 ;D Bonus: Mark Hamill will be voicing Merv Pumpkinhead in THE SANDMAN
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Yeah I'm having a hard time believing it's gonna pull it off without taking some huge liberties. But I guess we will see, I am always down to be proven wrong.
I hope that the marketing team is just struggling with how to represent this show because I really don't feel like they've done enough to make it stand out. That was such a bog standard trailer. How is anyone unfamiliar with the source material supposed to know what kind of story this is?
The whole Geeked Week panel seemed misguided. I think that sort of thing needs to be relegated to a comic con panel where they can actually harness the crowd's enthusiasm and energy. In the sterile environment, it really didn't engender any earnest excitement from anyone there.
The Sandman always had the potential to be the next Game of Thrones style crossover hit, but the way it's being marketed so far, I just don't have faith that they are gonna make this into a successful ongoing series.
The whole Geeked Week panel seemed misguided. I think that sort of thing needs to be relegated to a comic con panel where they can actually harness the crowd's enthusiasm and energy. In the sterile environment, it really didn't engender any earnest excitement from anyone there.
The Sandman always had the potential to be the next Game of Thrones style crossover hit, but the way it's being marketed so far, I just don't have faith that they are gonna make this into a successful ongoing series.
Looks good.
Lucifer is played by Gwendoline Christie.No Constantine.
[EDIT] My bad, Constantine is played by Taron Egerton.
Lucifer is played by Gwendoline Christie.
[EDIT] My bad, Constantine is played by Taron Egerton.
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TBF, it's kind of a hard sell. At least the first arc is pretty much gothic horror until issue 8 of the comic but after that it opens up so much it's not easy even as a reader to say "what kind of story" it is. The closest I can think of would be to say "it's a story about stories themselves, how dreams shape them and how stories shape our lives." But I dunno if the "general public" would be down for that, especially if they're wanting some epic, GOT-style kinda shit. And trying to capture that meta feeling on a trailer it's kinda hard... it would have to be presented as more "epic" as it would actually be.
Still, if they manage to secure enough seasons for some of the latter arcs... oh man, I'd love that.
Must be a new character then? Joanna's been dead for centuries by the time P&N takes place.
Egerton played John in the audiodrama version. John isn't in this one, it's Johanna.
Hmm, I didn't like the trailer's editing and music at all, didn't give the vibe of the comic and possibly misleads newcomers as well. Casting looks good though. Only way to judge this is to watch it. I will say at least this looks more promising than the dumpster fires that were Preacher and Y: The Last Man.
I don't know anything about Sandman and this trailer told me very little. Dude was banished somewhere for some reason by someone I guess? He's back. Back in the mortal world? Back in some other world that decayed while he was gone? Back in both? Who are these other people talking about him? Oh, and he blows sand at people as an attack of some kind (I'm assuming it makes them fall asleep or have a waking nightmare or something).
I thought it looked like a generic fantasy Netflix show and there was very little to get excited about as an outsider. I'm in the "wait & see" demographic. I'll wait until there is a consensus before I dive in. I may even wait until there are a few seasons out before watching just to make sure it doesn't get canceled by Netflix with an unsatisfying ending.
I thought it looked like a generic fantasy Netflix show and there was very little to get excited about as an outsider. I'm in the "wait & see" demographic. I'll wait until there is a consensus before I dive in. I may even wait until there are a few seasons out before watching just to make sure it doesn't get canceled by Netflix with an unsatisfying ending.
Never read the comics but it was always on my backlog. This looks amazing, first Netflix original, i've been genuinely excited for in forever.
without getting into major spoilers (and tbh most of this will probably be covered in the first episode, as it was in the first issue of the comic): the embodiment of Dream was captured by a Aleister Crowley knock-off and his cult in a ritual fuck-up (they wanted to capture the embodiment of Death, instead) and he spent decades in this sort of... magical cage, so to speak. And the consequences of having the actual embodiment of the concept of dreaming and dreams trapped and powerless for such a long time will be explored by the series' early episodes (I assume, as they were by the comic's first couple of issues).
He (Dream, Morpheus, the titular Sandman) belongs to a 'race' of entities that are the embodiment of concepts and they basically govern those concepts. There's also Death, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium (who went by a different name and had a different nature before) and a missing brother who will become kinda relevant later. They're "siblings" and they are called The Endless.
