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The Sandman has inspired numerous spinoffs since concluding in Other books like Lucifer and The Dreaming are direct spinoffs of the core Sandman series. The characters even occasionally appear in DC's superhero titles, most recently in 's Dark Nights: Metal. More recently, DC published an entire imprint called "The Sandman Universe" aimed at continuing where the original series left off. The Netflix series is just the latest development in a decades-long struggle to adapt the series from comics to screen.

Efforts date at least as far back as , when Roger Avary was attached to direct and Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio wrote a screenplay based on the first two storylines from the comic, "Preludes and Nocturnes" and "The Doll's House. However, the movie adaptation stalled again in after Gordon-Levitt dropped out over creative differences and Eric Heisserer was hired to rewrite the script.

Gaiman wrote a screenplay in with the intention to direct. But for various reasons including the WGA strike , that project also stalled out. Both projects are among the many DC movies that never came to be. Instead, DC's focus in recent years has shifted to a television adaptation. Now Netflix is the one to finally bring this adaptation to life. In June Netflix announced it had given a straight-to-series order for a Sandman adaptation.

The first season will run 11 episodes and is executive produced by Gaiman and Goyer, with Allan Heinberg co-writer of Wonder Woman serving as showrunner.

Audible debuted its own Sandman adaptation in Gaiman revealed the Audible series is meant to be a more faithful adaptation of the comics, whereas the Netflix series will update the mythology for a 21st Century setting. That being said, it's clear from the first teaser trailer for the Netflix that the show will initially be a very direct adaptation. As Netflix's own comparison video shows, the dialogue in these shots is almost identical to that in The Sandman We adore them and want to tell them gentle, lovely stories, but they drive us crazy at times.

We — and especially our ancestors — resorted to cautionary and disciplinary tales like Little Red Riding Hood, in which the wolf will eat you up if you stray from the path. In the Hoffman story, if you don't go to sleep, the Sandman's going to come and scratch out your eyes. And if strong-arming children into settling down to sleep isn't why the European parents and nurses of old told cautionary bedtime stories, maybe it's because they wanted to prepare their little ones for life's hardships.

There's no happily ever after except falling asleep, giving in. He can't be beheaded or trapped or tricked like other villains. It's hard to distinguish fairy tale, myth, legend and all of that, but in a way he belongs more to the realm of myth than fairy tales. Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Later Peter and Aunt May are asked to come to the police station.

Peter is left feeling guilty over causing the death of the supposedly innocent carjacker, and letting the real killer get away. When shown photos of Marko Peter instantly recognizes him as The Sandman and rushes off and waits for news to try to attain vengeance. Meanwhile, The Sandman robs a bank, and Spider-Man, now with enhanced abilities due to his new black suit, chases him to the subways. During their fight, Spider-Man manages to burst a water tank, flooding The Sandman in water and turning him into mud, which is swept through a water grate.

Believing that The Sandman is dead, Spider-Man leaves in satisfaction, but unbeknownst to him, The Sandman, who is washed out of the river, is able to eventually reconstitute himself.

Later, after Spider-Man tore off the Symbiote from his body in a bell tower after learning of its parasitic nature, and it bonds with Eddie Brock Jr.

The two kidnap Mary Jane Watson and take her to a construction site, forcing Spider-Man to face them both. During the fight, The Sandman uses the site's sand to again increase his size, turning into a version of himself several stories high. After Venom restrains Spider-Man with his webbing, almost strangling him, The Sandman nearly beats Spider-Man to death, until the intervention of Harry Osborn , under the guise of "The New Goblin", who comes to his friend's aid with his father's Goblin equipment.

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