4 fantasy movies and series to watch if you liked Netflix’s “The Sandman”

With the premiere of “The Sandman” on Netflix, sales of Neil Gaiman’s original novel have skyrocketed as thousands of new fans are getting closer to the story with Morpheus. And with the arrival of the second season of the series, these fantasy films and series can fill that void.

mirror-mask

One of the most important names to configure the imaginary of Neil Gaiman’s work was the artist Dave McKean, the illustrator of the covers of ‘The Sandman’, and who also worked on the credits of the Netflix series. But in 2005 he premiered “The Crystal Mask” or “Mirror Mask” in which he works as a director.

IS fantasy film is ideal for anyone who enjoyed ‘The man of sand’, while the two main artists work on it, Dave McKean as director and Neil Gaiman as writer. The story follows a fifteen-year-old girl who is able to travel to parallel worlds, and thus retrieve an amulet to bring an ancient queen back to life. This tape is available on Amazon Prime Video.

Lucifer

Although there have been those who did not appreciate the change that Lucifer Morningstar underwent in Netflix’s “The Sandman”, played by Gwendoline Christie from “Game of Thrones”, the character has another version, which has nothing to do with it. do with the new Neil Gaiman series. it concerns ‘Lucifer’ a fantasy series with Tom Ellis as the protagonist.

Neil Gaiman has made it clear on several occasions that Tom Ellis’ Lucifer has nothing to do with Netflix’s “The Sandman”. With that in mind, the six seasons of the series are an intense mystery of romance and murder, showing a Dark Lord tired of being the ruler of Hell. Available on Netflix.

good omens

Another adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s play, this time from the novel with Terry Pratchett, ‘good omens’, an Amazon fantasy series, with Michael Sheen. The story is about an angel and a demon trying to stop the apocalypse, while pondering their existence.

American deities

Much of the spirit and themes that Neil Gaiman put into “The Sandman” expanded and reprized it in “American Gods,” which was also adapted into a 3-season series on Amazon Prime Video. The story follows a former inmate now transformed into the bodyguard of an ancient deity.