The Sandman’s Morpheus Vs Lucifer Duel Change Explained By Neil Gaiman
Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The Sandman season 1.
Creator Neil Gaiman explains the changes made to the Morpheus vs. Lucifer duel in Netflix's The Sandman. The series is based on Gaiman's long-running comic of the same name, which was published under the DC Vertigo imprint and ran for 75 issues. The new show stars Tom Sturridge as Morpheus, who also goes by the names Dream and The Sandman. He's supported by a diverse cast embodying the rotation of back-up characters, including Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Patton Oswalt as Matthew the Raven, Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, and David Thewlis as John Dee, amongst others.
The Sandman season 1 adapts the comic arcs ofPreludes and Nocturnes and Doll’s House, which feature some notable character and story beats for the series. This includes a showdown between Morpheus and Lucifer in Hell, which plays out a bit differently onscreen than it does in The Sandman comic. In the original story, Morpheus is challenged to a duel of «The Oldest Game» in order to win back his helm, which was stolen by a demon. Lucifer has a demon fight Morpheus in the duel, rather than fighting him herself. However, in The Sandman season 1, Lucifer directly takes part in the conflict opposite Morpheus.
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Gaiman comments on the change to Variety, citing the «economics» of the page vs. the screen and how events have to fold for television. He says that having an actor of Christie's stature appear in the sequence ultimately makes it «cooler» than having Morpheus duel a demon. «When you’ve hired Gwendoline Christie because one, she is a 'Sandman' fan and she
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