Hollywood isn’t any stranger to doing harm management when a artistic particular person does or is accused of one thing so distressing it impacts the initiatives they’re related to. Suppose Ezra Miller, Jonathan Majors, or Neil Gaiman—the latter being a very notable case as a result of when he was first hit with sexual abuse allegations, which he has denied, he was concerned with a number of TV sequence. That features two much-loved titles: Good Omens on Prime Video and The Sandman on Netflix.
Good Omens‘ resolution was to have Gaiman, co-author of the unique novel and showrunner/creator of the sequence, first step again from being concerned with manufacturing on what had already been confirmed because the present’s third and closing season. Then, it was introduced that in lieu of a full third season, the Amazon present would shut out its story with a single 90-minute particular.
The scenario is just a little completely different with The Sandman. After a really well-received first season, the present was renewed in 2022 and a Netflix press launch shared on the time promised “the Sandman world will proceed to increase” with “with extra episodes and tales to be tailored from a number of Sandman graphic novels.” The announcement didn’t specify what number of seasons which may embody.
Nonetheless, in late January 2025, Netflix confirmed season two could be The Sandman‘s closing outing. In a Selection story launched at the moment, showrunner Allan Heinberg shared an announcement that learn partly: “The Sandman sequence has at all times been targeted completely on Dream’s story, and again in 2022, after we regarded on the remaining Dream materials from the comics, we knew we solely had sufficient story for yet one more season.”
In April, followers realized that The Sandman‘s two-part closing season would arrive in July, wrapping up the present for good. In a brand new interview with Leisure Weekly, Heinberg re-emphasized his earlier declare that two seasons of Sandman was one thing the staff had been planning round for a while: “It was a choice we made three years in the past.”
He framed Netflix’s announcement, made on the peak of Gaiman-adjacent unfavorable press, that The Sandman would return for a second and closing season as “unlucky timing, for positive.” He advised the journal the Gaiman tales began to hit simply as The Sandman was near ending manufacturing and transferring into postproduction.
“I can’t say that it affected our course of, which is scheduled years upfront,” Heinberg stated. “It’s been within the periphery of my expertise and the background of my expertise, however it hasn’t been a part of the world of the making of the present, if that is smart. Each manufacturing is its personal little island.”
The Sandman season two drops its first block of episodes July 3, with the ultimate block arriving July 24.
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