The Sandman Leaps to #1 Show in Latest Streaming Charts

Netflix has finally released the first season of their new series based on DC Comics and Vertigo’s The Sandman comic books and fans are loving it. The series is pretty dark and a little bit dreary, but that seems to be something that most DC Comics fans like. The Sandman has an all-star cast that features Tom Sturridge and Game of Thrones alum Gwendolyn Christie. When it premiered it didn’t do as well as it could have on the Nielsen streaming charts debuting in 3rd place. Now, it seems as if the series is doing pretty well. According to the latest streaming numbers, Nielsen reveals that the series is currently in the no. 1 spot.

The Sandman is the first project based on the character to ever make it out of the development stage. There was a film  developed, with Joseph Gordon Levitt attached to star. Previously, Gaiman revealed while talking with Entertainment Weekly why he refused to come aboard previous Sandman projects.

“I had refused to get involved,” Gaiman said of previous adaptations, most recently one with Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to both direct and star in. “I’d refused to write them; I refused to be the executive producer. I wouldn’t do it because I knew that if I did, I would lose the only power that I had, which was to be able to speak out against a bad Sandman movie. Fortunately, Sandman was just too expensive for anybody to justify making. And if you’re trying to make a Sandman movie, the first question is, what do you throw out? Because Sandman, by the time it was finished, is 3,000 pages of comic. So what is your movie then?”

Gaiman went on to recall some of the bad adaptations that almost happened, including a version from Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary that was over as soon as he pitched it to the heads of Warner Bros. He also spoke about a version from producer Jon Peters (of Kevin Smith’s Superman movie with a giant spider fame), adding: “There was a version of the script, and I’ll never forget the first line: ‘A-ha, foolish mortals! As if your puny weapons could hurt me, the mighty Lord of Dreams, the Sandman!’ And it got worse from there.” 

Tom Sturridge leads the all-star cast for the series playing the titular character and Lord of Dreams. He stars alongside Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, Asim Chaudhry as Abel, Sanjeev Bhaskar as Cain, Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Joely Richardson as Ethel Cripps, David Thewlis as John Dee, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Stephen Fry as Gilbert, Patton Oswalt as the voice of Dream’s raven Matthew, .and as Dream’s siblings, Mason Alexander Park as Desire and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death. The first season of the series is now streaming on Netflix.

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