’The Sandman’ Season 2: What To Know Amid Neil Gaiman Cancellations
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After ’Dead Boy Detectives’ cancellation, several Neil Gaiman projects shuttered. What do we know about ’The Sandman’s second season?

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Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman had the longest of mistiest paths to becoming a TV show, three decades after the DC Vertigo comic’s debut. The hesitation was down to the fantasy author resisting several awful movie attempts, and too much could have gone wrong in adapting the infinitely layered fantasy story, but Netflix brought a lugubrious and stunning spectacle to screens (full of Life Amid Death) as the first three graphic novels were initially adapted.

The second season has taken years to come together, which isn’t unheard of for a Netflix fantasy series with heavy VFX. Sadly, this could also conceivably be the final season, given that several Gaiman projects (like Amazon’s Good Omens) have been cut short, cancelled, or apparently indefinitely paused in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against the author (as initially reported by Tortoise Media). Those accusations do make the show’s bonus “Calliope” story hit differently than when the episode first surfaced, but that’s not a discussion for today. The Sandman‘s second season is still coming, so let’s (awkwardly) sift through what we can expect.

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How many episodes will we see? The first season brought 10 initial episodes and a bonus hour, but Netflix has not offered a count for the second season. However, Redanian Intelligence has passed on the rumor that we could see 12 new episodes of The Sandman when the show returns. This seems too good to be true, so we will await official word on that note, but the second season will leap headlong into Season Of Mists, the fourth graphic novel (considered the favorite volume of many The Sandman fans).

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    That was always going to be a tricky pitch

    yeah, but with ALL the sci fi series getting picked up, and all the well known adult comics being adapted (the boys, preacher, watchmen, constantine, sandman, etc) the last holdout felt like Transmet was the last one from that era that have the same tone that was left to be adapted.

    I mean, they’re not exactly going to be chomping at the bit to adapt shade the changing man, are they? They’re even doing fucking swamp thing.

    The only other one I can think of that has yet to be adapted, fits the mold and hasn’t been picked up is The Invisibles.

    Edit : and the sfx budget for the invisibles would be through the fucking roof