Good answer. Maybe I'm coming around. My second choice for the role would be Cillian Murphy, who is the same age as Cumberbatch but certainly looks younger… not 25 perhaps, but still…

I hear ya, and these are valid points (I disagree about 1 and 3 vehemently, but to each their own), but my question is; why is it important that Desire *look* younger than Dream? In the story "The Sound of Her Wings," Death's demeanour and appearance make her seem to be in her teens or early twenties, and it isn't…

No comic-book adaptation NEEDS to be made but, the way business is done, the high profile ones (Sandman included) are practically inevitable. Best we can hope is that when this finally does go forward, it goes forward with some dignity (and without Goyer).

I love your choice of Nick Frost as Merv's voice, and Doug Jones as Lucien, but I would also have Jones be the physical presence for Merv. He's not a stranger to playing multiple roles.

The characters, even the youngest of them, have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, so I don't see how 53 could be considered too old to play one. Their appearance is hardly related to their order of birth, considering that Death arguably looks younger than the majority of her siblings, (Delirium excluded,…