‘The Sandman’ Author Neil Gaiman, Star Tom Sturridge Tease Netflix Series: ‘It’s Just a Wild Ride’

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“Think of them as the beginning of the roller coaster ride, to the top of the roller coaster. Now the ride begins. From here on, it’s just a wild ride to episode 10. And it doesn’t stop — it’s glorious, and these people and Tom [Sturridge], it’s magic.”

Apart from Gaiman, on whose iconic comics the series is based, the cast and crew, Netflix and Warner Bros. Television executives, the audience was largely composed of comic book aficionados who evidently were familiar with the nuances of every single one of the 75 comics in the series.

The series was shot in London and U.K. locations across various COVID-19 lockdowns. About the first two episodes, Gaiman said: “When you think of Morpheus, you think of quite abstract ideas, the prince of dreams and Endless — someone who’s lived for millennia, I don’t really know what that means, or how to act it,” added Sturridge. “But I do know what it means to create a dream because, if you create a dream, then you’re aware of how someone feels. What is a dream, if not the most lucid articulation of our true selves?”

Gwendoline Christie, who plays Lucifer, said that her introduction to Gaiman was via his 2013 novel “The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” and when showrunner Allan Heinberg and Gaiman approached her, she read the comics. “Lucifer in the comic books is extraordinary — Neil’s always talked about this idea of Lucifer being inspired by a young David Bowie, this idea of a junkie angel. The idea of being God’s favorite and cast out was really exciting to me,” said Christie.

 

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