With both Locke & Key and The Sandman being adapted into live-action Netflix series, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez address hopes for a crossover.
This past year saw a crossover between two acclaimed comics, IDW Publishing’s Locke & Key and DC’s The Sandman, as Mary Locke ventured into Hell to rescue the soul of her long-lost brother. However, while both comic book properties are being adapted into live-action series on Netflix, Locke & Key creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez are unsure about a potential crossover on television.
In an exclusive roundtable interview attended by CBR, the question of a crossover between the two shows was raised, following in the footsteps of the recently concluded comic book miniseries Locke & Key/The Sandman Universe: Hell & Gone. While Hill and Rodriguez are open to the possibility, they see the two television series more focused on telling their own respective stories rather than crossing over.
“Never say never but, as a Sandman fan, my feeling is that I want to see Neil Gaiman’s Sandman stories,” Hill told CBR. “That’s what everyone wants, so my instinct is no [to the possibility of a crossover]. The two have had this nice moment where they got to hold hands in the comic books.”
Rodriguez agreed with Hill’s assessment, observing that it took “six volumes of Locke & Key and ten years to develop a world and idea for a worthy enough story” for a Sandman crossover while the television creative teams are crafting the best possible standalone stories they can. However, after enjoying the experience of creating Hell & Gone, Hill is open to working with Rodriguez on developing a second crossover between the two properties in comic books.
“It’s always possible that there might be another Locke & Key story in the comics that explores some of the outer corners of the Sandman Universe,” Hill continued, clarifying, “Specifically, I would like to do another story, if for any other reason, to explain why the two universes overlapped in the 1920s but don’t by the time we get to Kinsey, Tyler, and Bode because Kinsey, Tyler, and Bode do not exist in a universe with Batman and Superman.”
Hill concluded by noting, “But it is clear that Roderick Burgess is in a universe with Superman and Batman. There’s a story in my head that explains why those two universes split apart and we need to do another Mary Locke story to tell that.”
Developed for television by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill and Aron Eli Coleite, Locke & Key Season 2 is available to stream on Netflix.
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