Starring David Thewlis, Charles Dance, Gwendoline Christie and more, the Netflix adaptation of Sandman is undoubtedly star-studded.But there is a very famous actor who is not quite seen On screen throughout ten episodes: Mark Hamill.
On the show, the Star Wars legend voices Mervyn Pumpkinhead, the smoking, outspoken, jokey janitor who looks after Tom Sturridge’s titular Morpheus dreamland. The series is now on Netflix, and Neil Gaiman and producer Allan Heinberg explain to Total Film how the Luke Skywalker actor was involved in the adaptation .
“We have [Mark Hamill] Like we have a lot of people, that’s where there are Sandman fans,” Gaiman said. “You know, Patton Oswalt. [who voices Matthew the Raven], I first met him in 1992, when he waited three hours in line to get his Sandman: Season of the Mist autograph, so we had to beat our weight in some way. Mark Hamill loves comics.I remember and [Allan] About what Merv’s voice should be like, I don’t remember which of us suggested Mark Hamill, but we never real Thought we would get him. “
“I mean, he’s smart,” Heinberg chimed in. “Aside from his film work, he’s a great voice actor and my favorite in Batman: The Joker in the Animated Series. So he’s always at the top of our list, for that sort of thing.”
“We were very lucky with Sandman because we kept attracting people to our roster,” Gaiman recalls. “You know, Stephen Fry agreed to be Gilbert because Stephen Fry loved Sandman and wanted to do that and wanted to be that. So it gave us a little bit of magic that we wouldn’t have when we were casting .”
The Sandman, starring Boyd Holbrook, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Joely Richardson and Jenna Coleman, elevates the storyline directly from Gaiman’s graphic novel. It follows Dream (Sturridge), a powerful cosmic being who, after being imprisoned by a ruthless magic user for over a century, is forced to travel across different worlds to retrieve his tools and stop the rogue nightmare. As it turns out, the latter has been trying to catch Reaper in hopes of resurrecting his dead son, but the spell goes awry. Morpheus is in the mix – his absence creates chaos on Earth, Hell, and everything in between.
It can be streamed now. If dark fantasy isn’t your thing and you’re overwhelmed by the sheer volume of content on stream, then check out our guide to the best Netflix shows for some viewing inspiration.
