First Look at Netflix's THE SANDMAN Teases Dream's Imprisonment

 
Roderick Burgess is gonna need all the help he can get. 

During Netflix's fan event Tudum, the streaming service revealed the first look at The Sandman, the TV adaptation of the classic DC Comics/VERTIGO series created and written by Neil Gaiman.

In a one-minute teaser, the footage appears to be taken from the show's pilot episode, and is based on "Sleep of the Just", the first issue of The Sandman comic book series, which was written by Gaiman and drawn by Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg.

Opening at the estate of occultist Roderick Burgess (Charles Dance), we see Burgess and his coven attempting a very important summoning ritual. "Tonight we achieve what no one has even attempted," he remarks. We will summon and imprison...Death."

As his followers repeatedly chant "Here in the darkness," Burgess begins the summoning, saying, "I give you a coin made from a stone. I give you a feather...pulled from an angel's wing. I give you the blood...from my veins. We summon you together! COME!"

Mystical energy begins to swirl, an a cloaked figure in a strange helmet emerges and falls into the arcane circle marked on the floor. We hear a voiceover from another character, who states, "Death has family -- Desire, Destiny, Despair..."

"Which one have I got?" asks Burgess as we see him bend down to remove the helmet.

"Dream," replies the other character.  We now see Dream/Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) has been imprisoned in a large glass chamber. "You're gonna need all the help you can get," he adds ominously.

If you'd like to check out the first look, you can view it below thanks to the official Netflix account on YouTube...

The Sandman is expected to be released on Netflix sometime in late 2021/early 2022.