The Sandman to end with a bonus swan song for Death
Kirby Howell-Baptiste will star in an extra story premiering July 31 on Netflix.
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Following accusations of sexual misconduct against writer Neil Gaiman, all the adaptations of his work and other projects are being swept under the rug or quickly wrapped up. That includes The Sandman, though showrunner Allan Heinberg continues to maintain that two seasons was always the plan. But not before one last special bonus episode, airing July 31, billed as “Chapter 12”: The Sandman Presents: Death: The High Cost of Living. (That excessive amount of colons comes straight from Netflix, by the way.)
Announcement of bonus episode, which will follow Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), comes alongside newly released episode titles for the final season. As previously reported, Netflix is pulling its favorite move and dropping the season in two separate “Volumes,” with the first half premiering July 3 and the second half premiering July 24. Per a press release, the new installments “will adapt fan-favorite storylines from many of the most beloved comics, including the Season of Mists, Brief Lives, The Kindly Ones, and The Sandman: Overture, collections, along with beloved single-issue stories such as ‘Tales in the Sand,’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ‘The Song of Orpheus,’ ‘Thermidor,’ and ‘The Tempest,’ among others.” However, Tudum promises that “even diehard fans of the comics who know Dream’s full arc as it exists on the page are in for some surprises.”