The Sandman trailer and launch date are out. Netflix has unveiled a one-minute 41-second teaser trailer for The Sandman, its live-action sequence adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s common fantasy comedian e book of the identical identify, to pique the curiosity of followers and announce that it’ll launch August 5 on the streaming platform. The Sandman trailer begins with an ominous shot wherein we see an imposing character standing together with his again to us. While The Sandman teaser trailer doesn’t reveal a lot about his background, it options glimpses of him escaping captivity. The Sandman teaser ends with a sequence of compelling and unnerving visuals, which construct an aura across the protagonist.

Headlined by Tom Sturridge because the ruler of The Dreaming Morpheus/ Dream, The Sandman forged consists of Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Mason Alexander Park as his sibling and rival Desire, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as his sister Death, and Boyd Holbrook because the nightmare who escaped The Dreaming Corinthian. The Sandman’s tackle the “Ruler of Hell’ is kind of completely different from the one offered within the Tom Ellis-led city fantasy sequence Lucifer, which emerged as a fan favorite after its debut in 2016.

Gaiman had earlier said in a Tumblr publish: “The theology and cosmogony of Lucifer is a good distance from Sandman’s. It’s ‘impressed by’ Sandman, however you possibly can’t simply retrofit the Lucifer model to get again to Sandman, in case you see what I imply. It appeared simpler and extra enjoyable to have the Sandman model of Lucifer be, nicely, a lot nearer to the Sandman model of Lucifer.”

The Sandman comic series, which was first published in 1989, became quite popular in the 1990s because of its dark and inherently eerie narrative. It was ranked No. 46 in Entertainment Weekly’s “100 finest reads from 1983 to 2008,”. So, will the live-action The Sandman sequence do justice to the critically-acclaimed supply materials?

We’ll discover out when all 10 episodes from The Sandman launch August 5 on Netflix. Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg function the manager producers on the sequence.