Forget Game of Thrones. After you see these first looks, you’re only going to remember Gwendoline Christine for playing Lucifer in The Sandman.
Christie’s appearance is much more faithful to Gaiman’s comics, with the golden hair done in curls, soft features, and overall angelic appearance. Of course, don’t get fooled by it; her batty black wings are to her sides, casting a shadow of a pair of horns on her face.
The tweet is captioned, “What power have dreams in Hell?” — a direct dig to the Sandman himself, who is the King of Dreams.
Canonically, Lucifer’s first encounter with Dream is when the latter is in Hell to get hold of his helmet. Lucifer poses this rhetoric, implying that although Dream may have entered hell and was capable of fighting off demons, he was not really free to leave Hell without Lucifer’s permission.
Of course, Dream being Dream chooses to respond with, “What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”
This comeback angers Lucifer to no end, and he vows that the next time he faces Dream, he will destroy him.
Over time, however, Lucifer as such does not really meddle with Dream. He is exhausted by how everyone treats him, playing into stereotypes and prejudices of being the devil.
And so, Lucifer simply gives up control over Hell and hands the key to Dream, noting that this would be a different way of “destroying” him.
Still, it seems that Season 1 of The Sandman will focus on when Lucifer and Dream were adversaries, notably adapting the comic’s first and second volumes, “Preludes & Nocturnes” and “The Doll’s House.”
The specifics of characters’ genders, personalities, and plots were also readdressed to tailor Dream escaping imprisonment in 2021, as opposed to 1989 as per the comics.
This is how Christie’s version of Lucifer also came to be. And I have full faith that she is going to ace it!
About The Sandman
The Sandman is an American fantasy drama TV series based on the 1989–1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. The series was developed for Netflix and is being produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.
The first season adapted the first two comics in the series, Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll’s House. In 1916, Dream, the king of Dreams and Nightmares and one of the seven Endless, is captured and imprisoned after an occult ritual. After being held captive for 106 years, he escapes and sets out to restore order to his kingdom of The Dreaming.
The Sandman stars Tom Sturridge as Dream, with Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry, and Sanjeev Bhaskar in supporting roles.
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