Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is done at Netflix
The series' showrunner claims this was always the plan.
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Another Neil Gaiman property has fallen, although the team behind the series claims that was always the plan. Netflix’s The Sandman—adapted from Gaiman’s popular comic book series—is officially ending after its upcoming second season, Variety reports.
This doesn’t come as a surprise for a couple of reasons. Gaiman titles have been getting the axe left and right in the wake of horrific allegations of sexual assault published about the author by outlets like Tortoise Media and Vulture. This week, a U.K. musical based on Gaiman’s novel Coraline permanently shut its doors. Disney and Netflix canceled their adaptations of The Graveyard Book and Dead Boy Detectives respectively, while Prime Video converted the upcoming third season of Good Omens into a single 90-minute episode with no involvement from the disgraced author. Gaiman was also dropped by Dark Horse Comics, which canceled its ongoing adaptation of his 2005 novel Anansi Boys.