Neil Gaiman’s Sandman is being adapted into a television series

The Sandman is headed to Netflix as a television series.

After multiple attempts to bring arguably the most acclaimed comic ever to the film or television world, The Sandman is reportedly moving forward as a television series and will reportedly air on Netflix. This comes after a long-attempted film adaptation of the comic series, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt being prominently involved, was left in a sort of development limbo, with no new announcements about the project.

Neil Gaiman, creator of The Sandman, and David S. Goyer, both prominent figures for the attempt at the film adaptation, will be executive producing the upcoming series. As for the showrunner, Allan Heinberg, screenwriter for Wonder Woman, will be taking over that role for the project. This attempt at adapting Gaiman’s magnum opus comes off the back of two of his other properties finding success in television, American Gods and Good Omens. No release date, episode count, or casting information has been released at this time.

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For the uninitiated, The Sandman was a reimagining of the Golden Age DC Comics character of the same name and was Neil Gaiman’s attempt at expanding the DC Universe, which was incredibly successful. The Sandman follows the physical embodiment of Dream, also known as Morpheus, and his siblings known as The Endless, and presents a fantastical, often horrific story that spans centuries.

Every storyline throughout the series varies in tone and presentation and, as such, there is almost an anthology-like nature to the series that still feels connected. It’s honestly a difficult series to explain without spoiling anything. If you haven’t read the series, go read it.

The Sandman was also one of the flagship titles for the recently defunct Vertigo imprint at DC Comics, but it paved the way for many in the modern comics era. There had been very few universe-expanding stories as of yet within the comics medium, as well as a relatively finite ending, despite the reappearance of Dream within the pages of Dark Nights: Metal. So to see the series finally being given the chance to be adapted, hopefully without being caught in limbo, is a boon for fans of the source material and for the uninitiated alike.