Netflix has optioned DC's The Sandman as a live-action show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Allan Heinberg has reportedly signed on as showrunner/chief writer, with Neil Gaiman and David S. Goyer onboard as executive producers. This movie would follow Netflix taking over Fox's Lucifer, which itself was a spin-off of the Sandman comic book series.
The Hollywood trade cites sources who say this Sandman TV show would be DC's "most-expensive TV foray ever," and one that DC's sister company HBO (under the Warner Media umbrella) passed on. It reportedly wasn't in consideration for Warner Media's planned streaming service, as selling it to a third party such as Netflix would bring in additional revenue upfront than internally.
The Sandman has been in development as a TV show or a movie on multiple occasions going back to the mid 1990s.
No production timetable for The Sandman has been given.
They're just gonna put bad make up on the normal actor.
Really, the whole thing should be animated, possibly with different teams on every episode, Animatrix style.
Josiah Evans
It's uninspired in every conceivable way. The kids just politely conversing the 4 horsemen out of existence is just such an awful scene. It's a good idea for a scene- but it's just so sloppy and quick that there is no satisfaction in it.
There are a lot of things I liked about Good Omens but the s1 finale reminded me of the s1 end for Korra.
Ryan Sanders
For me it's Robert Smith
Camden Williams
Don't even get excited, it's bound to be a generic show with a slight goth aesthetic and some character names slapped on generic characters.
No fucking way they'll bother actually adapting it.
Jason Kelly
>S1 finale U wot?
Connor Myers
It's going to suck hard.
TV literally fears serious programming.
Ian Hernandez
Whats the last good thin Netflix produced?
Jordan Gonzalez
Netflix isn't making it.
Jason Powell
>less pratchett is a good thing Shit taste, user. Shit taste. Gaiman is a second rate hack compared to Pratchett.
Jaxson Allen
That's pretty much how it goes down in the book thhough? I personally would have preferred the Them bringing their own sword, scales etc., but that's a minor point.
Kayden White
What is the name of the pumpkin guy?
Jayden Cook
Merv Pumpkimhead
But Matthew the Raven is also a wise ass when he needs to
People forget Morpheus is the overly gloomy one, pretty much everyone elseon his life, even some of his brothers, try to make the guy laugh whenever they can
>David S. Goyer >Showrunner I thought they learned not to let him run anything after Blade Trinity
Daniel Rodriguez
>margo martindale in a netflix show Kek
Kayden Nelson
Fuck your shit taste. American Gods is good but Good Omens is far better
Daniel Lopez
I have always wanted Tilda as Desire. It is just too perfect
Aaron Cox
>asshole says asshole things, while story is supportive of her being seen as Wanda Oh no!
Ayden Martin
Let’s hope they do
Andrew Parker
>Sandman >adaptation by Netflix worry.jpg
Robert Rodriguez
>expect a sheboon death Did you read Sandman? Every black female character except Hob's gf suffers death from burning alive thanks to a cosmic knock-on effect from the Nada fiasco.
Parker Gomez
>Perky black britchick babbling to Dream about Mary Poppins
>a show on Netflix won't show a transexual struggle through adversity only to be be accepted for who she is by entities factually more powerful than God. Do you realize how much of a fool you sound like?
Carter Lee
The Three Ladies are around the same power level as the Endless, and they don't acknowledge Wanda as a woman. This is especially important because the moon magic they were using is the essence of femininity. Even though Death gives her what she wanted in the end, the Three Ladies aren't necessarily portrayed as wrong either. Many people would be furious with that aspect of the story as it is.
Jackson Hernandez
>The Three Ladies are around the same power level as the Endless Okay sure, but the higher power is seen with what is portrayed as her soul and that soul is female. You can try to twist the narrative anyway you want to fit your outrage posting but the way the story is laid out is perfectly clear, Wanda is treated with respect by the one of the seven highest authorities in all existence.
Landon Lee
All I said is that people will get mad if they see that scene in the TV show. You're twisting it to sound like I went on some kind of giant anti trans rant.
Thomas James
>All I said is that people will get mad if they see that scene in the TV show Yeah, outrage posting.
Aiden Jones
Am I wrong?
Ian Smith
Yes, unless it's filmed poorly it will be well received.
Leo Stewart
How is the Lucifer live action show? I see it as a litmus test for how this one will turn out
Carter Hughes
I thought Gaiman said he never wanted a Sandman movie. Am I remembering wrong, is TV a different thing, or did he change his mind?
Juan Hall
Dream and Death will be cops. It will be a police procedural. The season finale involves a giant spider.
Nicholas Perez
user David's not dead, his planet just needed him.
Gavin Robinson
Did you like the comic? You will hate the show. Did you never read the comic? You will feel ambivalent towards the show.
Cooper King
Who's willing to bet Death will be a black chick who's actress has an unpronounceable name?
Nolan Foster
I hope it's more like The Excorcist.
Elijah Adams
I rather they play Kain and Abel.
Colton Scott
Keanu Reeves as Morpheus, Grimes as Delirium. Otherwise yes.
Ethan Ross
The main character is going to be some female detective (either an OC or an in-name-only version of some character from the comics like Rose Walker) with a bunch of LGBTQPNRSZX friends (none of whom are Wanda) who go around solving ordinary serial killer-of-the-week plots while the MC gets cryptic advice from Morpheus (who will have a grand total of 2 1/2 minutes of screentime across season 1 with no dialogue and whose scenes will be overshadowed by Matthew) in her dreams. The pilot will have some random goth chick appear in the background who is implied to be Death, but she'll never appear again. One episode will begin with them investigating a diner shot up by a guy named John Dee as a throwaway gag. The main characters will also hang out at a nightclub called ''The Endless''. There will be a super-loose adaptation of the Serial Killer Convention story where all the killers are Batman villains or thinly-veiled Trump supporters. It will be cancelled after one season.
If I'm not 100% right, it's probably because the show will be even more unfaithful. Screencap this.
Kevin Williams
Shut your mouth
Landon Edwards
>The main character is going to be some female detective with a bunch of LGBTQPNRSZX friends who go around solving ordinary serial killer-of-the-week plots while the MC gets cryptic advice from Morpheus in her dreams.
Ugh. That is probably EXACTLY what they will do.
Tyler Anderson
This would be better than a bad adaptation of the comics, though.1
Chase Kelly
Of ALL the things in that to complain about, you pick the gays, trannies and Morpheus talking to people in dreams. All of which were in the original source material.
Colton Nelson
Man, that DC streaming service is now super fucked.
Daniel Nelson
Yeah Death will definitely be black. They'll justify it by her egyptian motif. Morpheus' appearance won't change depending on the viewer, he'll just be black all the time too. They won't touch any Lucifer stuff because they don't want people who watch the Lucifer show to be confused. Probably won't adapt the short stories like with the immortal meeting with Morpheus every 100 years, or the shakespearian play, or the roman emperor. Just the modern-day stories. Oh yeah, and Thessaly will be in it a lot more, her romantic relationship with Morpheus will be a big focus of the show.
Fun times ahead.
Camden Lee
After Flash, Lucifer and the Swamp Thing pilot, I'm honestly scared they'll do that. Especially the part about Morpheus barely appearing. The cliffhanger for the first season would probably be his first appearance.
Jace Fisher
>and Thessaly will be in it a lot more That wouldn't necessarily be a bad change.
Joseph Mitchell
Hope not, that show is for teenaged girls and not vertigo fans.
Lucas Reed
Final Crisis: Superman Beyond live-action show when?
Aaron Butler
> finally gets a Sandman series > being made by Netflix
This is such a stupid post, holy shit. Only a completely ignorant idiot would even compare the two just because they were Gaiman adaptations.
Justin Walker
This could be good but damn, DC's streaming service could have used this. It's the sort of show that would bring new people to it.
Joshua Williams
>Netflix >not pushing tranny propaganda Someone hasn't been paying attention.
Joshua Gonzalez
>Thessaly will be in it a lot more, her romantic relationship with Morpheus will be a big focus of the show. Better than their relationship not being shown at all desu
Ayden Brown
>Keanu Reeves Fucker can’t act, he can’t pull off Morpheus’ subtlety and gravitas when speaking at all
William Myers
Netflix isn't making the show, DC is, Netflix is just airing it.
Oliver Scott
That's probably worse.
Chase Thomas
WB you mean. Is David S. Goyer still attached to write it?
>tranny propaganda Did you read the page? The whole scene is about how goddesses of femininity will never accept Wanda as a woman, even if they get the surgery.
Wyatt Scott
Meh half of the comic was over-rated goth shit.
Charles White
First of all, only a retard would think they will directly be adapting the 75+ issues of Sandman with 1:1 accuracy. Sandman not only is too expansive to do that, the very nature of Sandman, later on especially, is such that it actually works better when you do original stuff that is inspired by the comics without trying to directly redo everything in it.
Lincoln Ortiz
Goyer is just the producer. Allen Heinberg is the showrunner and writer.
Julian Brooks
More like Morpheus is looking for his missing keys of office, which was exactly what the first storyarc is about.
Joseph Reed
How is that bad? And who did you want to make this show, despite DC owning the property?
William Bennett
Gaiman is a money whore. Why do you think he padded out the comic. To make more money while diluting his magnum opus.
Carter Hernandez
Poor bait is poor.
Jack Kelly
Neat, saw this algorithm in place for more boomer properties to exploit.
>How is that bad? DC is very recently shown little faith in their acclaimed properties.
>And who did you want to make this show Honestly, no one.
Dominic Cooper
Cain and Abel would honestly be perfect for those two hooligans
Sebastian Clark
Gaiman hated one of the scripts for it and said it was the worst thing he'd ever read. He never said he was against the project as a whole.
Zachary Gomez
>DC is very recently shown little faith in their acclaimed properties. That's why this show is airing on Netflix. It cost too much for WB to air it on their own channels so Netflix is handling it.
Swamp Thing cost too much and AT&T hated the show. Netflix is paying for the show, so it's up to them when the show is cancelled
Jace Cook
That could actually work pretty well.
Alexander Gutierrez
>Especially the part about Morpheus barely appearing.
That's exactly how the later, most acclaimed stories of Sandman worked. People doing shit while the Endless are around the edges, not directly interacting with the characters until the very end.
Alexander Moore
Have a (You)
Easton Lewis
And the goddess of femininity is summoned with a blood ritual by a fucking Witch that straight up murdered and mutilated someone so obviously it’s not portrayed as being reasonable. Plus Death’s decision at the end outweighs whatever the crazy moon god thinks
John Bennett
this is the first thing I thought of and it's going to be true, but it's going to last for three seasons like all netflix shows
Camden Phillips
>David s goyer >netflix Failed right from the start
Dominic Taylor
Darn, I wanted a live-action adaptation of the secret history of how buttsex doomed the Roman empire
Charles Allen
>make the main character look like himself >make him powerful and sexy How did he get away with it
Sandman is the perfect environment to insert heavy handed SJW shit It will suck Also Sandman is overrated
Levi Cooper
The morons on Scans_Daily consider Gaiman a transphobe for this story, so it wouldn't surprise me if other people completely misinterpret that scene.
Landon Morales
Really shocked this isn't a DC Universe streaming only.
Luke Kelly
You mean like The Americans?
Am I missing some reason this should be sarcastic?
Gavin Price
>Allan Heinberg has reportedly signed on as showrunner/chief writer
>imdb has nothing but tv dramas and writing the Wonder Woman movie.
Fucking. Why?
Isaiah Jenkins
Why not on DC's streaming service? Atleast hopefully this might end up crossing over with Lucifer.
There's hope, right...?
Christian Hill
>Tfw bought both books years ago and I'm still not done with them
Adam Hill
And especially Bojack. He must be retarded.
Alexander Flores
It was great because it followed the book right up until they didnt with that goobshite ending.
They shoulda stuck with the original twist "just wait til your father gets here, and tells you off" to mean his literal human dad, and the devil never shows up at all because he never existed in Adam's reality
Aiden Martinez
Most likely because it's not capeshit enough, and potentially could click well with general audiences like Lucifer did. It's sound logic.
Jason James
Our bad, lets move it to The CW
Mason Howard
it is going to be probably even worse than Lucifer. I feel bad for Gaiman.
Jacob Taylor
Oh. Wow. That's... somehow not horrible. Dunno how well Mews has done with his acting chops for more dramatic roles.
Nicholas Flores
I remember rereading it years ago. I was surprised I forgot how much of a horror comic it was. I read it in trades in high school in the late 90s. I guess I somehow didn't find it too shocking even though I wasn't much into horror until around that time.
Could be exciting if Netflix can manage not to Netflix it up
Isaiah Ross
Isn't that basically what the show did though? Only with Adam consciously making that choice.
William Hall
Actually the one-off stuff will probably be stretched out to cover up how they can't use Dr Destiny, the Infinity Inc kids, Jack Kirby's Sandman, and Lucifer.
Hell, I would not be shocked if they do a full season based entirely around the Shakespeare stuff and rework Death's mini into a season long arc with Morpheus and company involved in that story
Andrew Watson
Sandman had a subplot about a transwoman way before the concept of SJWs even existed m8
Joshua Jenkins
Too bad the American animation industry is dead.
Joseph Hill
Check comicvine, Heinberg is also creator of YA, co-wrote Crisis of Conscience and wrote the heavily delayed OYL WW story.
Michael Thomas
I remember reading recently that people were upset that at the end her soul was a prefect female (like she believed she was) and not a male trying to be female
If they can manage to pull off a good Delirium I don't care what else they screw up.
Lincoln Perez
Yeah, I figured it would have been too anticlimactic for test audiences or whatever.
Aaron Stewart
That's asinine as fuck. I'm going to wager that that was a TERF take because there's absolutely no reason for anyone in the trans community to get upset over that.
Daniel Brooks
Are you sure you're not thinking about moon blood Goddess or whatever ritual? Where the >witch made a point of her not being woman enough. Or something.
Logan Davis
That show fucking sucks
Carson Lewis
so will desire be a feminine man or a masculine woman ? its gonna be androgynous but i cant help feel theyll push some gay bullshit or trans stuff with him/her
Nathan Moore
>Really, the whole thing should be animated, possibly with different teams on every episode, Animatrix style. Sploosh.
Henry Cruz
since when do trannies need a reason to get upset over stuff?
Liam Turner
Syfy have been doing a lot of articles on the invisibles ever since happy.
Could this be the time of vertigo TV. (Preacher seems to be doing well) an maybe Netflix will get the rights to swamp thing and make a season 2?
Hellblazer is out sadly.
Ryder Powell
If Gaiman has any say in the matter, I very much doubt it. Especially since the woman she was visually based on died last year.
Nathan Scott
Preacher us confirmed finished after S4
James Clark
Xe's already trans
Jose Miller
It'd be fun if they switched it around between cuts here and there.
I think that's what they did in the comics. Unless I just misinterpreted the art.
Justin Butler
cant be trans it has no gender
Hunter Perry
nah they did do that theres a scene where hes a femboy in cat ears like a neko twink and then hes in a gayclub as a lesbian looking woman
now that style is more like delirium and no i only listen to industrial or goth sorry dunno who that even is desu user
Thomas Powell
Here's this interview clip with Grimes: more for her talking sryle than to show you the music. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qVqN1HNTWCA I could imagine her talking in rainbows. I could see
Lucas Brooks
>Mootkins (A man with a ) Dream >Creepy chan DEATH >Chris Hansen Destiny >Boxxy Delirium >W.T. Snacks Destruction >Linetrap Desire >Chris-Chan Despair
>This movie would follow Netflix taking over Fox's Lucifer Aaaand it's shit. Get ready for a poor man's supernatural with shameless lesbian/tranny pandering.
"the ideologies of the characters do not reflect on the ideologies of the author" is lost on people nowadays. I doubt that they would want to take the risk of showing this shit and be called transphobic by internet activists.
Hudson Sanchez
>no paranormal shit as the focus, too complicated for the viewers >humans cannot be shown as shitheads, can't risk pissing off minority groups >no gore or heavy themes, think of the children >a few namedrops and references to make capeshitters clap >no complex themes, just follow a safe formula starring some blonde slut Sounds about right. I genuinely hope this fails, Sandman is no masterpiece but it doesn't deserve this shit.
Grayson Allen
It's sad.
Because I could see the Serial Killer Convention being a great three part episode of a decent thriller series...
Carson Morgan
Sandman would work way better as an episodic series about weird shit just happening. Maybe have Dream as the "host" at the beginning of each episode. The longrunning plots about the Endless can be their own episodes airing in between or at the beginning and end of seasons. Sandman just has this Goosebumps/Twilight Zone weirdness about it that could work just fine without a single protagonist.
Dylan Myers
>ITT: Netflix = The CW
You motherfuckers are dumb
Elijah Cook
WB is supposedly replacing or integrating it with a streaming service for the whole company which is what they should have done in the first place
No joke, I like to create custom characters on this one WWE game and your pic genuinly looks like something I would make.
Cooper Jenkins
a shame she is no longer young enough to play Delerium. Gaiman based her look partly on Tori and they became friends. Tori even sings about Gaiman in two songs and Trent Reznor in another two
If that's true you should worry more about Marc Bernardin being on it.
Hunter Parker
I approve.
Grayson Morris
>it's live action hard pass
James Scott
let's be honest, one of those is going to be black i hope it's either destruction or destiny if they raceswap death i'm going to be pissed
Jeremiah Collins
>feel theyll push some gay bullshit or trans stuff with him/her He's probably the definition of genderfluid
Nathaniel Scott
>it has no gender he/she literally sleep raped some chick into pregnancy
Xavier Carter
Mathew
Jace Rodriguez
Except Sandman always had lesbian and tranny pandering. Though I'm sure Netflix will dumb it down and make it obnoxious instead of being more well written.
>Allan Heinberg, who previously worked as a writer on 2017’s Wonder Woman, Grey’s Anatomy, and co-produced Scandal, among others. Gaiman himself will executive producer alongside David Goyer Sounds like it's gonna belong in the trash. Hope it gets cancelled before that.
Angel Garcia
hold on, what do yo mean Morpheus or Death kill every black female on the planet? issue?
Nicholas Reyes
i already hate it. The only way to do Justice to Sandman is an animated movie by Studio Ghibli.
Blake Foster
I've seen this name in a lot of shows. What exactly does he ruin?
David Jenkins
He memorized the entire fucking script of Dogma just so he wouldn't make Smith look bad in front of Alan Rickman.
Leo Reyes
Batman V Superman.
Lincoln King
Mmmm, not Studio Ghibli. How about Ralph Bakshi?
Owen Adams
At a con, when talking about Justice League, he asked fans if they knew who Martian Manhunter was and to raise their hands. He then said they were all virgins and implied their opinions did not matter. He acted as if his wonderful Hollywood films are the be all and end all of things.
