![]() “With Sandman, it’s all about surprising you. ![]() “If you didn’t like an episode of Game Of Thrones, you probably won’t like any other episode of Game Of Thrones,” reasons Gaiman. Episode 5 is about as dark and traumatic as anything is ever gonna get, then you’ve got Episode 6, which is probably the most feel-good of all the episodes.” It’s a notion that looks set to differentiate The Sandman from all the other lavish fantasy adaptations out there. “Then you’ll be wondering, ‘What the hell is this?’ by Episode 2, when you’re meeting Gregory The Gargoyle in The Dreaming. “You watch Episode 1 and think, ‘Oh, I get this thing: it’s like Downton Abbey, but with magic,’” he says. In the upcoming Moon Knight issue of Empire, Gaiman opened up about the genre-hopping, tone-switching approach of The Sandman on screen. ![]() And part of that faithfulness is conjuring a show that shape-shifts from instalment to instalment. Enter Netflix, which has taken on an adaptation of a comic book series like no other – a metaphysical, philosophical exploration of dreams, romance, life and death – with Gaiman on board as a developer to help shepherd it to the screen faithfully. ![]() ![]() For decades, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman has been considered a towering achievement in the world of graphic fiction – a fantastical epic so imaginative and broad in scope that the prospect of bringing it to the screen seemed near-impossible. ![]()
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