Sandman has long been one of my favorite books. I remember that it was the first thing in my youth that I read, that truly made me think and question the world around me. Sandman may be the most difficult story to translate to film, it has such complex stories and plots. This is a simple cast of who I would like to see as The Endless. I may do a larger casting later, but for now this is all.
Here they are, the Endless
Destiny:
The oldest of the Endless, Destiny appears as a blind man dressed in grey or brown robes (purple in earlier comics), carrying a large book, the Cosmic Log. The book is chained to him, or he is chained to the book, and within the book is written the entire sum of existence, past, present and future. Destiny seems the most possessed by his function and responsibilities of any of the Endless. He rarely demonstrates much personality. His symbol is his book.
- Hugo Weaving is an amazingly talented actor and would be unbelievable for this role.
Death:
Death appears as a spunky, attractive, level-headed young Goth woman. She wears a silver ankh (representing the afterlife) and has a marking similar to an Eye of Horus around her right eye. She prefers to dress and act casually, and is on better terms with Dream than any of the other Endless.
-Ellen Page is quite talented and would be great as Death
Dream:
Dream's usual appearance is as a tall, pale man with wild dark blue-black hair. He dresses in a shapeless cloak of "night" with "flames dancing in its folds". His eyes are pools of shadows with glimmers of light within. He is known by many names, most commonly "Morpheus". He has a long history of insensitivity towards others, and throughout The Sandman, he must come to deal with his past cruelties. He is very concerned with fulfilling his responsibilities. His symbol is his dream-helm, made from the spine and skull of a long-dead god.
-Guy Pearce would be great for the most difficult of the Endless to cast.
Destruction:
A very large, robust man with red hair, who sometimes appears bearded and sometimes shaven. Destruction abandoned his responsibilities as one of the Endless three hundred years ago, causing much conflict between him and his siblings. Since abandoning his realm, the other Endless usually refer to him as "the Prodigal" or "Brother" rather than "Destruction". He has a passion for creative and constructive endeavors, but little talent. His symbol is a sword.
- Paul Bettany
Desire:
Desire is beautiful, slim, and truly androgynous, capable of appearing as a man, a woman, neither, or possibly both. Desire has a cruel streak and a long-standing rivalry with Dream. His/her symbol is a pink-tinted glass heart shape.
-Keira Knightly was my original choice for Death, but after much thought I decided that she would be great as Desire
Despair:
This is actually the second incarnation of Despair. A short, obese woman with greyish skin and irregularly-shaped teeth. She is always naked. Despair has a cold, quietly intelligent manner. She has a habit of carving her flesh with a hooked ring that she wears. This hooked ring is also her symbol
-Kathy Bates, or CGI
Delirium:
The youngest of the Endless, Delirium appears as a young girl whose form changes the most frequently of any of the Endless, based on the random fluctuations of her temperament. She has wild multicolored hair and eccentric, mismatched clothes. Her only permanent physical characteristic is that one of her eyes is green with silver flecks and the other blue, but even those sometimes switch between left and right. She was once known as Delight, but some traumatic event caused her to change into her current role. Her symbol is an abstract, shapeless blob of colors.
- Brittany Murphy is just simply perfect for the role.
And here are two other characters that I decided to throw in at the last minute.
Lucien:
Dream’s librarian and so much more.
- Matt Frewer
Lucifer:
This depiction of Lucifer is more in line with John Milton’s description of the fallen angel. He was not depicted as a being of pure evil as in most of his incarnation in the media. This Lucifer would go on to have his own series, which was interesting in its own right.
- Jude Law
Well let me know what you think about my choices.
HAWK out