For the longest time, the general consensus was that it would be impossible to make a live-action adaptation that would do justice to The Sandman comics, but Neil Gaiman promises the upcoming series is going to come very close.
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Netflix series The Sandman, an adaptation of the Vertigo Comics series of the same name by Neil Gaiman, is being developed, co-written, and executive produced by Allan Heinberg, who also serves as the showrunner.
About 10 years ago, there was a fantastic showrunner who pitched a Sandman TV show that didn’t introduce Morpheus until the fourth episode!… [The upcoming adaptation] feels so amazingly Sandman.