Everything You Need To Know About The Sandman Actor Tom Sturridge
Netflix's The Sandman stars Tom Sturridge as Dream of the Endless, and here's what you need to know about the talented British actor. Executive produced by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman is the long-awaited adaptation of his beloved DC Comics graphic novels. The Sandman season 1 will encompass the first two volumes of Gaiman's dark supernatural saga, Preludes and Nocturnes andThe Doll's House, with Sturridge in the central role as Morpheus, the master of dreams.
Ever since Gaiman's The Sandman comics were first published in 1989, Hollywood has tried and failed to bring the comics to the big screen. Filmmakers like Roger Avary, Terry Gilliam, James Mangold, Eric Kripke, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt attempted to launch aSandman movie over the decades, but none of them could solve the mystery of how to adapt Gaiman's fantasy. Meanwhile, Gaiman shot down every «bad» attempt to make a Sandman movie in order to protect his creation, well aware of what The Sandman means to his legions of fans. Finally, a television version was shopped around and bought by Netflix, with Gaiman executive producing along with Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman) and David S. Goyer (Man of Steel). With The Sandman becoming a reality, one of the most vital and most daunting challenges was to find the right actor to portray Morpheus, and they found him in Tom Sturridge.
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Sturridge is hardly an unknown and he already distinguished himself with several film and TV roles before he auditioned to play Dream in early 2020. The role of Morpheus requires an actor who can portray an ethereal, regal, and haunting supernatural being of extraordinary power who still possesses a spark of humanity and is capable of
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