Bodies TV series adaptation announced at Netflix

Last Updated on March 1, 2022

After finding success with Sweet Tooth, Netflix is prepping a Bodies TV series based on the comic by writer Si Spencer (Slash & Burn, The Vinyl Underground, Books of Magick). Inspired by Spencer’s eight-part crime thriller, Bodies brings you a mystery with four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies – all set in London.

Per DC Comics, here is the official synopsis for Bodies:

Edmond Hillinghead is an 1890s overachiever who’s trying to solve a murder no one cares about while hiding his own secret. Karl Whiteman is our dashing 1940s adventurer with a shocking past. Shahara Hasan is 2014’s kickass female Detective Sergeant, who walks the line between religion and power. And Maplewood, an amnesiac from post-apocalyptic 2050, brings a haunting perspective to it all.

Marco Kreutzpaintner (Beat, Summer Storm, Soulmates) will direct, with Haolu Wang (The Pregnant Ground, Flip Flops) also helming select episodes. Producing Netflix‘s Bodies TV series is Will Gould (Peaky Blinders) and writer Paul Tomalin (Torchwood). Danusia Samal is writing alongside Tomalin. Tomalin will also serve as an executive producer alongside Kreutzpaintner and Moonage founders Gould and Tiplady. Susie Liggat is also producing.

Netflix’s Bodies TV series has the potential to tell a unique story that unites four crime solvers for a case that spans 150 years. Each tale will introduce a new setting, characters, and mysteries to uncover and solve. If you want to get the jump on the series, all issues of Bodies have been collected in a single volume and are available for purchase online or at your local comic shop.