Warning: SPOILERS for The Sandman Season 2 are forward!
Simply within the authentic Sandman comics, Tom Sturridge’s Morpheus met in finish in The Sandman TV sequence, willingly giving up his life within the episode “Lengthy Reside the King” with a purpose to save The Dreaming and its remaining inhabitants. Then Morpheus’ funeral was held within the twisty Season 2 finale and attended by lots of the characters viewers had develop into acquainted with over the present’s run. However as I realized from The Sandman co-creator David S. Goyer, there have been two particularly wonderful cameos that had been deliberate for the funeral that didn’t work out, and I actually want these might have occurred within the Netflix subscription-exclusive sequence.
Forward of The Sandman Season 2, Quantity 2 premiering final week on the 2025 TV schedule, I had the pleasure of talking with Goyer about his work on this closing batch of episodes, amongst different subjects (together with what he considered James Gunn’s Superman). Having observed what number of acquainted faces had been proven on the funeral, together with even Arthur Darville’s Ric Madoc from the bonus story “Calliope,” I requested Goyer, who co-created The Sandman with Allan Heinberg, if there have been any actors whom they tried to deliver again for this occasion, however weren’t out there. Right here’s what he instructed me:
I am certain there have been sooner or later. Allan and I ourselves had been gonna be in Morpheus’ funeral, and the scheduling did not work out for me. I used to be on set doing Basis. At one level it was going to, and I used to be going to fly in for an evening and be within the funeral, and Allan was going to do it with me. We simply thought it might be like a enjoyable Hitchcock-ian cameo nod, However then after I could not do it, Allan chickened out. So I am certain there are, and we got here up with a wild listing. We had been speaking about placing extra of the creators for the unique comics within the funeral.
Few folks watching The Sandman would have acknowledged David S. Goyer and Allan Heinberg in that crowd, however I actually have welcomed seeing them. Like Goyer mentioned, this could have been paying homage to when director Alfred Hitchcock would cameo in his films, thus serving as a understanding wink for these within the know. This jogs my memory of how author Grant Morrison appeared in Titans Season 4’s huge multiverse sequence with Beast Boy.
Alas, as soon as David S. Goyer needed to drop out of doing this cameo due to his work on Basis (which could be streamed with an Apple TV+ subscription), Allan Heinberg determined to not do it both. It’s a disgrace, however comprehensible and a reminder how typically scheduling conflicts can put the kibosh on a good suggestion. And whereas I actually would have favored to be taught another names that had been within the combine to seem, I don’t blame Goyer for not remembering them contemplating that, as he identified, the funeral scene was filmed a yr and a half in the past.
Though The Sandman’s predominant storyline has been accomplished, the present hasn’t reached its finish simply but. That can occur when the bonus episode “Dying: The Excessive Value of Residing” is launched this Thursday, July 31. After that, check out the 2025 Netflix launch dates to be taught what’s coming to the streaming service later this yr.