Following the news this week that Tom Sturridge was being lined up to play Dream in Netflix’s take on Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, now comes some further casting chatter.

Via /Film, Netflix is looking at Liam Hemsworth and Dacre Montgomery for the role of The Corinthian in the streaming service’s live-action TV take on Gaiman’s iconic work. Hemsworth is likely best known for his role as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games, while Montgomery will be most familiar to genre fans as the Red Ranger from 2017’s Power Rangers and for playing Billy Hargrove in the last two seasons of Stranger Things.

As for The Corinthian, that villainous character constantly wears sunglasses to hide the eerie rows of teeth that line his empty eye sockets. Debuting in The Sandman #10, The Corinthian was created by Dream with the intent of giving Dream a helping hand. Instead, The Corinthian soon pushes back against Dream and begins to possess human beings. A little down the line, Dream gets the better of The Corinthian an reintroduces him as a badass hand-to-hand fighter.

Launched in 1989 under DC’s Vertigo imprint, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman initially ran for 75 issues until 1996. The focal point of the story was Dream, one of the Endless, and his brothers and sisters; Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny.  A strange, twisted tale of worlds within worlds, Sandman is generally seen as one of the greatest comic books of all time. So much so, it even holds the honour of being one of the few graphic novels to make it onto the New York Times Best Seller list.

As ever, expect more on The Sandman as it continues to develop.