Neil Gaiman’s Sandman landed at Netflix for what is reportedly DC Entertainment’s most expensive TV series ever.
The streaming giant and Warner Bros. TV will adapt the best-seller comic book series from DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. The Sandman, which spanned 75 issues, centers on Morpheus, an ancient, powerful being, one of the Endless, a set of seven siblings that includes Delirium, Desire, Destruction, Despair, Destiny, and Death.
An episode count for the straight-to-series drama has yet to be confirmed.
Wonder Woman and Grey’s Anatomy Allan Heinberg will serve as scribe and showrunner. Gaiman will executive produce alongside David Goyer.
News of the new live-action TV series follows New Line’s unsuccessful attempt to turn the graphic novel into a feature film. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was originally attached to star and direct.
