Sturridge adds: “It was literally my first day! But it was incredibly helpful”. Neil Gaiman and Tom Sturridge had a long conversation about the new show in a wide-ranging interview, with the former stating he had to remind the latter to stop pretending like Batman when in character. “I growled at him once and said, ‘stop being Batman,'” Gaiman told Entertainment Weekly. Related: The Sandman: Why Neil Gaiman Chose Gwendoline Christie Over Tom Ellis For Lucifer? No Batman impersonation for Sturridge: The Sandman lead actor, Tom Sturridge. He has experienced and perceived every thought, dream, and moment, and therefore he knows what you’re going to say. As the actor explained: “I remember you said to me that everything he says has to feel like it was etched in stone. Thankfully, Gaiman provided a beautiful description of Dream’s speech manner, which helped Sturridge better comprehend the part.

However, translating that to the screen was tough. It’s worth a click just for the preview pages.Morpheus’ words are always written in white font against black text boxes in the comics, giving him an ethereal appearance. Featuring artwork by Andy Kubert, Michael Allred, Mark Buckingham and more, these tales star Batman and some of his greatest foes, as well as Green Lantern, Superman, and more. Best-selling author Neil Gaiman (THE SANDMAN) joins a murderers row of talented artists in lending his. It’s been 70 years, and it’s been wonderful, but this is the last one. Best-selling author Neil Gaiman explores the DC Universe in these stories starring Batman, Green Lantern and more. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader. And it doesn’t matter whichever Batman you love, whether that is Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, or the Batman TV show or even the various, glorious animated series. So what I was trying to say is that it honestly doesn’t matter if it is in or out of continuity. What should it be? And I wanted to play very, very fair with the reader. What I wanted to do was write the last Batman story. The result was “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” Gaiman’s take on Batman is bound to be interesting: Back then, they had Alan Moore do the honors. Much as they did with Superman in the 1980’s. Apparently DC decided to kill Batman, wait awhile, then reboot the whole franchise. Follow an interesting interview over at Wired with Neil Gaiman talking about his current run writing Batman.

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