‘The Sandman’ First Look at Season 2 Reveals Loki, Thor and Odin, and the Endless’ ‘Family Dinner’
Netflix revealed a behind-the-scenes first look on Thursday of Season 2 of “The Sandman,” the ongoing adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s DC graphic novel series, as part of the streamer’s Geeked Week promotional efforts. The season will involve the “Season of Mists” storyline from the comics, in which Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) abdicates control of Hell and presents Morpheus, aka Dream (Tom Sturridge), with the key to its gates, causing many immortals to try to convince Morpheus to give the key to them.
The behind the scenes featurette provides a first look at one of those contingents: the Norse gods Thor (Laurence O’Fuarain), Loki (Freddie Fox) and Odin (Clive Russell), who attend what executive producer and showrunner Allan Heinberg calls a “banquet” that Dream throws “for all the visiting deities and gods and fairies.”
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The featurette also teases the introduction of Dream’s other siblings: Destiny (Adrian Lester), Delirium (Esmé Creed-Miles) and the Prodigal (Barry Sloane), who attend a “family dinner” of the rest of the Endless, Death (Kirby), Desire (Mason Alexander Park) and Despair (Donna Preston).
Other new actors joining for Season 2 include Ruairi O’Connor as Dream’s son Orpheus, Ann Skelly as Nuala, Douglas Booth as Cluracan, Jack Gleeson as Puck, Indya Moore as Wanda and Steve Coogan as the voice of Barnabas the dog.
While Sturridge, Kirby, Heinberg and director Jamie Childs are all interviewed in the featurette, Gaiman — who has been accused of sexual assault by several women, which he has denied — neither appears nor is mentioned. Production on two other Gaiman adaptations, the final season of Prime Video’s series “Good Omens” and Disney’s feature adaptation of “Graveyard Book,” have been suspended in the wake of the allegations.
Season 2 of “The Sandman,” which is produced by Warner Bros. TV, is set to debut in 2025.
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