Taking on Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman is not your typical run-of-the-mill acting job, since most of the characters are a literal embodiment of primordial elements and concepts. Yet, according to Mason Alexander Park — who’ll be portraying one of the Endless — the new Netflix adaptation has managed to remain eerily faithful to the comics.
If you were to ask fans, they’d say that as long as the forthcoming Netflix series sticks to the source material, the producers have nothing to worry about in terms of characterization and the subtleties that bring each of them to life. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned in this industry over the years, it’s that adaptations rarely work out the way you want them to, and translating comic book pages into motion picture usually introduces its own set of complications.