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Jenna Coleman and Patton Oswalt join Netflix’s Sandman as Stephen Fry’s role is confirmed
Jenna Coleman, David Thewlis and Patton Oswalt have joined the star-studded cast of Netflix’s fantasy drama The Sandman.
Netflix announced their latest signings for the show, an adaptation of the dark comics by Neil Gaiman.
Blending myth and fantasy, it follows the people and places affected by Morpheus, the Dream King, as he mends the cosmic — and human — mistakes he’s made during his vast existence.
Jenna will play adventurer Johanna Constantine, an ancestor of occult detective John Constantine, while David has been cast as the villain John Dee, who can manipulate the dreams of mortals. Patton will be lending his voice talents to the character Matthew, a raven.
They join the likes of Joely Richardson, Niamh Walsh, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Donna Preston and Stephen Fry – who let slip his role in March during a TV appearance.
He revealed he is set to play an ‘Edwardian writer’ named Gilbert – or Fiddler’s Green – a place sailors dream of finding, that is also sentient and can take human form.
Stephen said: ‘It’s part of what we call the DC Universe but it’s really its own thing. I’m really looking forward to that, I’ve not been in anything quite like it before. I suppose the Hobbit counts as a fantasy world.
‘I’m playing a kind of Edwardian writer figure called Gilbert.’
The newly announced cast also join Game Of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie who has been cast as Lucifer.
Tom Sturridge is set to play Dream, Lord of the dreaming and Vivienne Acheampong is Lucienne, the librarian of the dreaming.
Charles Dance has been cast as charlatan and magician Roderick Burgess, Sanjeev Bhaskar is Cain, the first predator, Asim Chaudhry is Abel, the first victim and Boyd Holbrook is The Corinthian, an escaped nightmare.
Author Gaiman, who will also executive produce the star-studded project, said: ‘For the last 33 years, the Sandman characters have breathed and walked around and talked in my head.
‘I’m unbelievably happy that now, finally, they get to step out of my head and into reality. I can’t wait until the people out there get to see what we’ve been seeing as Dream and the rest of them take flesh, and the flesh belongs to some of the finest actors out there.
‘This is astonishing, and I’m so grateful to the actors and to all of The Sandman collaborators — Netflix, Warner Bros., DC, to Allan Heinberg and David Goyer, and the legions of crafters and geniuses on the show — for making the wildest of all my dreams into reality.’
The Sandman is coming to Netflix.
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