‘The Sandman’ Casts Orpheus, Loki & More: Everything We Know About Season 2

Dead Boy Detectives joined The Sandman universe in 2024, and now it’s soon time for the flagship series to make its comeback to Netflix.

The Sandman Season 2 officially began production in November 2023, according to the streamer, and it’s adding several new cast members to the talent roster this season in the roles of Orpheus, Loki, Odin, Thor, and more.

Here’s everything there is to know about The Sandman Season 2 so far. Who knows where these dreams will take us…

The Sandman Season 2 cast includes the remaining Endless siblings & gods

Tom Sturridge stars in the fantasy series as Morpheus/Dream, who in the Season 1 finale battled Lucifer (Gwendoline Christie) for regained control of his realm. The other Endless siblings seen in Season 1 were Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, Mason Alexander Park as Desire, and Donna Preston as Despair. The group is completed with the additions of Adrian Lester as Destiny, Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium, and Barry Sloane as the Prodigal in Season 2, Netflix announced on May 20.

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Christie, Patton Oswalt (Matthew the Raven), Vivienne Acheampong (Lucienne), Jenna Coleman (Johanna Constantine), Ferdinand Kingsley (Hob Gadling), Stephen Fry (Gilbert), Asim Chaudhry (Abel), Sanjeev Bhaskar (Cain), Vanesu Samunyai (Rose Walker), and Razane Jammal (Lytta Hall) are all returning in their previous roles for the second season.

On July 2, Netflix announced more Season 2 casting. Ruairi O’Connor has joined as Orpheus, the poet, musician, and oracle who is the only child of Dream and the muse, Calliope (last seen in Episode 111). Orpheus is described as an idealistic, romantic, young man who is very much his father’s son, until tragedy strikes and reveals to him the true nature of love.

Freddie Fox plays Loki, the god of chaos who is a charming, seductive shapeshifter. Loki is the smartest and most dangerous person in any room—and utterly irresistible and never to be trusted. Clive Russell is Odin, the father of Thor, and blood-brother to Loki. He is a longtime ally of Dream’s, but finds himself driven to desperate extremes in his efforts to stave off Ragnarök. Laurence O’Fuarain plays THOR, the storm god. With his hammer Mjollnir, Thor is brusque, rude, and driven entirely by his appetites—for food and drink, for battle, and for sex.

Ann Skelly‘s Nuala and Douglas Booth‘s Cluracan are royal emissaries from the court of Faerie. The siblings are opposites in every way: While Nuala is responsible, empathetic, and principled, Cluracan is an impulsive rogue who lives for pleasure. They disagree about everything, except their devotion to one another.

Jack Gleeson plays Puck, a malevolent hobgoblin who serves as the royal jester to King Auberon of Faerie. He is fascinated by mortals, enjoys nothing more than making sport of them for his own amusement, and is the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Indya Moore‘s Wanda is a professional driver and security agent for an exclusive travel firm. Wanda proves herself to be an indispensable guide on an Endless road trip to the waking world.

And Steve Coogan voices Barnabas, the canine companion of the Endless’s prodigal brother. Barnabas is loyal and loving, but an outspoken cynic. He’s man’s best friend and man’s sharpest critic.

The Sandman Season 2 plot

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The Sandman is based on the beloved award-winning DC comic series written by Neil Gaiman. While exact plot details have not yet been revealed, the new season promises to take the characters and viewers to places they haven’t yet seen in this story.

“This week we officially restart production on the next sequence of stories of The Sandman for Netflix,” Gaiman wrote in a letter to fans in November, on the 35th anniversary of the story’s release. “Genius showrunner Allan Heinberg and the countless people in front of and behind the camera are building something endlessly special, and bringing these stories to life in a way that would once have been unimaginable.”

“A journey is beginning that will take us from Destiny’s garden to Hell, from the Heart of the Dreaming to Ancient Greece and revolutionary France, and from there to places even I cannot quite imagine on the screen,” the letter continued. “I will be patient. Good things are coming.”

The Sandman Season 2 premiere date

An exact premiere date will be announced at a later time. The series is currently still in production. There was a long wait between the Season 1 debut in August 2022 and the November 2022 renewal, and then an even longer wait for filming to begin a year later in November 2023 (the Hollywood strikes that summer played a part in that delay).

Just knowing how long it takes to film a season of television and complete post-production, it’s possible that the season could come out later this year or in 2025. The Sandman was also notably absent from Netflix’s “Next on Netflix” 2024 lineup announcement in February, implying that a 2025 release date is more likely.

Is there a trailer for The Sandman Season 2?

There is no official trailer for Season 2 just yet, but Netflix released a teaser video featuring the first look at the Endless actors in character on May 20 when the new cast was announced. See the video above.

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