DREAM WORKS

For The Sandman, patience is about to be rewarded. Netflix’s incoming TV adaptation sees the personification of Dream – aka Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) – waiting a century to regain his kingdom after he’s captured by overreaching occultists. Offscreen, writer Neil Gaiman (Good Omens, American Gods) has waited 30–plus years for his revered comic–book epic to reach screens, holding tight to his patient faith in one absolute.

“I didn’t have faith that we’d always get here, ” says Gaiman, “but I had faith that the important thing. Steve Gerber, Gene Colan, Frank Brunner, satire, madness, glory… I was so excited when I heard George Lucas was making a movie. And then [] came out. became a bad joke. I never wanted that to happen to and I saw scripts that would have made that happen.”