Trailer for Netflix’s The Sandman revealed at SDCC 2022

There’s barely a character left unrevealed in Netflix’s new trailer for The Sandman, based on DC Comics’ influential cult classic. Revealed at the Sandman Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, the new footage features mortals, nightmares, Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer and and Death herself.

Netflix claims that the TV series begins exactly the same place as the 1989 comic book series. After decades of imprisonment in the waking world, the King of Dreams (Tom Sturridge) must reclaim his fallen kingdom, his stolen power, and capture his most wayward subjects — or humanity as we know it could be utterly destroyed. On the way he runs into DC Comics characters like John Constantine (transformed into John’s ancestor Johanna, played by Jenna Coleman, for the TV series), historical figures like William Shakespeare, and even the devil themself (Gwendoline Christie).

The Sandman’s 10-episode season drops on Netflix on Aug. 5.

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