Netflix finally released its live adaptation of DC Comics and Vertigo’s hypnotic. The series was met with very positive response, and it even dropped an additional episode shortly after its premiere. hypnotic It features a beautiful star-studded cast with Tom Sturridge as Dream and Gwendolyn Christie as Lucifer. Neil Gaiman has been promoting the series over the past few weeks as he has been revealing some interesting behind-the-scenes details. One of the most interesting things that the creator revealed actually had nothing to do with the series other than the original comics. During a new interview with rolling rockGaiman revealed that the Joker was almost appearing in the original sitcom.
“No, I don’t. I don’t regret it. The truth is, if working with the DC universe hadn’t been a constant pain in the ass, Sandman would probably have remained a lot more attached to the DC universe. The reason they are the only characters in the DC universe that I would touch on after a while are people like Element Girl, who forgot so much that she didn’t even have a page or entry in Who’s Who of the DC Universe, and Prez, the first teenage girl who is widely considered a joke, Gaiman told the magazine. It was because I kept trying to do things and they would be planned and they would be prepared and then all of a sudden it would be changed.” “I was really annoyed by the continuity of DC. An example would be at the beginning of The Sandman [issue] Five, John Dee, Doctor Destiny, escapes from Arkham [Asylum]And he was supposed to meet the Joker. And I had written the entire Joker sequence in and all of a sudden I got a phone call saying, “Oh no, the Joker just disappeared under the waters of the Gotham River. He thinks he’s dead. And I’m like, OK, he’s not dead. He’s the Joker. He’s coming back.” And they’re like, “Yeah. But he’s technically dead now. So you have to make it someone else. I’m like, ‘But he was the Joker.’ It was good… well. Roll up on me, it’s now a scarecrow. But it was that kind of thing. I just went, “I can’t be bothered.” I can’t really be bothered having to change things and rewrite it because someone else just dropped the Joker in the river.”
Recently, Gaiman revealed while speaking with Entertainment Weekly why he refused to come to Sandman’s previous projects.
“I declined to be involved,” Gaiman said of previous edits, most recently Joseph Gordon-Levitt being associated with both the direct and the star. “I refused to write it; I refused to be the executive producer. I don’t because I knew that if I did, I would lose the only power I had, the ability to speak out against a bad Sandman movie. Fortunately, Sandman was too costly for anyone to justify making it.” If you’re trying to make a Sandman movie, the first question is, What do you have to get rid of? Because Sandman, by the time it was finished, was 3,000 pages of comics. So what’s your movie?”
Gaiman went on to recall some bad tweaks that almost happened, including a version of Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary that ended as soon as he pitched it to Warner Bros. bosses. He also spoke of a version of Producer John Peters (from Kevin Smith’s Superman movie with giant spider fame), adding, “There was a version of the script, and I’ll never forget the first line: ‘Aha, mortal idiot! As if your petty weapons could harm me, the great lord of dreams, the hypnotist! And it got worse from there.”
Tom Sturridge leads the all-star cast of the series, who plays the titular character and Lord of Dreams. He plays alongside Gwendolyn Christie as Lucifer, Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, Asim Choudary as Abel, Sanjeev Bhaskar as Kane, Jenna Coleman as Joanna Constantin, Julie Richardson as Ethel Krebs, David Thewlis as John Dee, Boyd Holbrook in The Corinthian role, Stephen Fry as Gilbert, Patton Oswalt as the voice of Dreamcatcher Matthew, and as Dream siblings, Mason Alexander Park as Desire and Kirby Howell Baptist as Death. The first season of the series is now streaming on Netflix.
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