For years it was conventional wisdom that an adaptation of The Sandman, the much-celebrated series of graphic novels from Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, and Mike Dringenberg, would be impossible to properly pull off.
The property had remained in development limbo, with one version or another floating around the Hollywood ether, for well over two decades.
It would take until 2022 for a Sandman adaptation to finally emerge, and fans will be glad to know it was worth the wait.Clocking in at 10 episodes, Netflix's The Sandman, which was produced in association with Warner Bros., is an absolute home run of adapting comic book storytelling to screen.
The series, which was developed by David S. Goyer (who worked on the Dark Knight Trilogy with Christopher and Jonathan Nolan), Allan Heinberg, and Neil Gaiman himself, nearly perfectly translates the dreamlike (and nightmarish) imagery and storytelling for the screen.Excited For Sandman?
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