The Sandman
Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Runtime
- 45m
- Released
- 2022
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Details
Release year: 2022
Storyline
Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.
Top credits
Tom Sturridge — Dream, Morpheus, Oneiros, The Cat of Dreams
Vivienne Acheampong — Lucienne
Patton Oswalt — Matthew the Raven
Nina Wadia — Fate Mother
Awards
0 wins & 1 nomination
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• Dave McKean, who created the covers for the comic series, came out of "Sandman retirement" to design the credits sequences for this series.
• In the first chapter, just after Dream is captured in 1917 by Roderick Burgess, several cases of dream disorders happen around the world, which later are named "encephalitis lethargica". This is historically accurate: from 1917 to 1928, in UK and in other parts of the world people suffered diverse dream disorders. The symptoms were high fever, headache, lethargy, sore throat, double vision, delayed physical and mental response, sleep inversion and even catatonia. If the case was severe enough, patients might enter a coma-like state. It was first named as encephalitis lethargica in 1917 by Austrian neurologist Dr. Constantin von Economo. The cause of the disease never was found.
• In an interview, Tom Sturridge (Morpheus) revealed that Neil Gaiman told him on his first day of filming to "stop being Batman" with his dialogue.