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as part of a horror-focused mature readers line at DC Comics. Initially, the book was tied fairly strongly to the DC Universe; Dream appeared in series likeand characters like John Constantine and Justice League villain Doctor Destiny all show up in the early-going. Other DC mainstays—including characters from the Justice Society, The Justice League, and the Simon/Kirby Sandman run—pop up as well, often in single-issue stories.
Some of those DC characters, like Doctor Destiny, under the name John Dee , will have a presence in the show. Others, like John Constantine , have been swapped out for different versions. In Constantine’s case, the character on the show will beConstantine a Gaiman-created ancestor of the more familiar John Constantine. That’s probably it for cameos, though—the Martian Manhunter and Superman aren’t likely to show up here.
, fatally undercut the nature of the comic. “You have 3,000 pages of story and trying to squeeze that into a two-hour movie meant that you wound up throwing away anything that madeinteresting,” he said, “and you wound up with something that didn't mean anything. So that was what happened over and over again asLuis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Netflix/Courtesy of DC Comicsfilm adaptation was locked in development hell, with writers and directors coming and going, and no real prospects of escape.
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