Acclaimed comic-book writer and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman paid a visit to The Sandman set recently and offered up so new info! responding to fan on Twitter, Gaiman has said that Netflix’s Sandman series’ first season will cover the first two graphic novel volumes, Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll’s House. These in turn cover the first sixteen issues of the seventy-five issue run.
In an interview with comic-book.com, Gaiman said he’s had thirty years to consider his approach to Sandman and that the show’s execution will reflect that period of consideration. "Doing the Netflix TV series, we're very much looking at that as going, 'Okay, it is 2020, let's say that I was doing Sandman starting in 2020, what would we do? How would we change things? What gender would this character be? Who would this person be? What would be happening?'“ Gaiman added: "The fact that we have seventy-five issues of Sandman plus -- essentially, 13 full books -- worth of material, is a really good thing. It's not a drawback. It's on our side. And the fact that we're in a world in which we can take things that only existed in comic book art, and that can now exist in reality."
Boyd Holbrook, who will playing The Corinthian in the series stated in an interview with Collider: "I think everyone wants the show to continue [beyond Season 1]. I think it's a standard contract that's like seven, five years whatever. We have talked about all that. I don't know if it'll all work out. I think it might work out in different blocks of time, but yeah you definitely want to have some sort of macro idea of how long something's gonna last. But I don't wanna give away the details of how long."
The show is shaping up to have on of TV’s bests casts, with Tom Sturridge playing Dream, Kirby Howell-Baptiste playing Death and Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer. Gaiman can be seen in the video below paying his first visit to the set.
An early look behind the scenes of the first ever screen adaptation of Netflix’s The Sandman, based on the DC comic book series from Neil Gaiman.