The Sandman has been renewed for a second season at Netflix.
The long-awaited display screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s influential graphic novel, which concluded its first season on August 19, will return to the streamer, it introduced on November 2.
Gaiman himself teased some future plot factors for the subsequent season: “There are some astonishing stories waiting for Morpheus & the rest of them… Now it’s time to get back to work. There’s a family meal ahead… And Lucifer is waiting for Morpheus to return to Hell.”
See the announcement, which included a video of the titular Sandman – Dream’s – helm rising from a heap of sand. No premiere date has been acknowledged.
Yes, it’s true: The Sandman will return to Netflix!
“There are some astonishing tales ready for Morpheus & the remainder of them… Now it’s time to get again to work. There’s a household meal forward… And Lucifer is ready for Morpheus to return to Hell,” says @neilhimself pic.twitter.com/TbA3hnD5f6
— Netflix (@netflix) November 3, 2022
There had been speak of extra seasons of The Sandman even earlier than the primary one premiered. Showrunner Allan Heinberg advised NME on the present’s London premiere that they needed to adapt everything of the comedian e-book collection in future seasons.
“We’ve got as many as they’ll let us have. If enough viewers show up, we can go for quite a long while. We want to do all of it, we want a spin-off miniseries. We’d love to make it for as long as they’ll have us,” he stated.
The new episodes of The Sandman, in keeping with a Netflix Tudum article, will choose up the place the primary season left off: the approaching battle between Dream (Tom Sturridge) and Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie). The new season additionally guarantees to introduce extra members of the Endless, past these within the first season: Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), Despair (Donna Preston) and Desire (Mason Alexander Park).
Gaiman will nonetheless work with Heinberg, govt producer David S. Goyer, Netflix and Warner Bros. on the brand new episodes. Goyer stated in an announcement: “The support our partners at Netflix and Warner Bros. have given us has been phenomenal. And the fan response made the 10-year journey worth every obstacle. Truly, this has been a labor of love.”
In a four-star overview,NME stated The Sandman was “a big story that rarely feels half told” and one which “is at its best when it’s grounded in human problems”.
Two weeks after the premiere of Sandman season one, Netflix surprise-released a further two-part episode that starred Sandra Oh and James McAvoy.