First Trailer For Netflix's BODIES Unveils A Murder Mystery Spanning 150 Years

Netflix's adaptation of the late Si Spencer's Vertigo Comics miniseries Bodies, chronicles the mystery of the same dead body appearing in four different time periods.

By MarkJulian - Sep 04, 2023 12:09 PM EST

Filed Under: Netflix

"You're not the first detective to discover this body."

Netflix has released an intriguing look at its upcoming adaptation of Si Spencer's (Hellblazer: City of Demons) Vertigo Comics graphic novel, Bodies.

The 8-issue miniseries, which has since been collected into a graphic novel, chronicles the London-based mystery of a murder victim whose origin dates back to 1890 and spans all the way into the post-apocalyptic future of 2050.

The original miniseries saw Spencer team up with artists Meghan Hetrick, Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay and Phil Winslade, giving the graphic novel a distinct look for the four different time periods the story takes place in.

Netflix's adaptation was spearheaded by Paul Tomalin (Torchwood) and stars Stephen Graham (Peaky Blinders,The Irishman) as Elias Mannix, Shira Haas (Unorthodox) as Detective Constable Maplewood, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit) will be playing Detective Sergeant Whiteman, Amaka Okafor (The Sandman) as Detective Sergeant Hasan, and Kyle Soller (Anna Karenina) as Detective Inspector Hillinghead.

Going by the trailer, it seems the show is slightly adjusting the time period so that it lines up with the year of the series' release date. The story still starts in 1890 with DI Hillinghead and then proceeds to DS Whiteman's point of view in 1941.

However, Hasan's story originally took place in 2014 (the same year that the miniseries was first released) but the Netflix adaptation will now depict the Hasan-portion of the story in 2023. Maplewood rounds out the time periods in 2053.

Netflix has categorized the adaptation as an 8-part miniseries consisting of one-hour episodes. All 8 episodes will be released globally on the streamer on October 19th.

Sadly, Spencer passed away in 2021, a year before Netflix greenlit the adaptation.

With such an interesting premise, will you be tuning in to binge Bodies when it's released? Let us know in the comment section below.

Four detectives, living in four different eras, find the body of the same murder victim in London’s Whitechapel. They soon come to realize their investigations have them central to a mysterious conspiracy spanning over 150 years.

The Vertigo Comics miniseries presented a mystery with four detectives, four time periods, and four dead bodies – all set in London. 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.

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17 Comments

Forthas - 9/4/2023, 12:22 PM

I hope it does not skip through time throughout the series. That could be a tricky thing to pull off narratively. I think Cloud Atlas suffered a lot from that among other things. Not that it can't be done but there are not a lot of examples where it works succesfully.

Syringe - 9/4/2023, 2:04 PM

@Forthas - yeah, I think True Detective did the time jumping incredibly well, but I can't think of other examples.

bkmeijer1 - 9/4/2023, 2:14 PM

@Syringe - I think it worked in season 1, but season 3 just didn't work for me. Then again, S1 is amongst the best of television in the last few decades

Syringe - 9/4/2023, 3:23 PM

@bkmeijer1 - S1 is spectacular, but I have to say I actually enjoyed S2 than I did S3, which felt pretty underwhelming.

But yes, agreed, the first season was pretty flawless, everything from script to direction to editing.

S4 aka "night country" looks very interesting though, Jodie Foster is still one of the all time greats imo

bkmeijer1 - 9/4/2023, 4:36 PM

@Syringe - I don't even remember S2, just which actors were in it (ans yes, I did watch it).

And yeah, I look forward to S4 as well. I kinda forgot about it, so thanks for reminding me. Do we know a release date already? Because I do remember it being part of a 2023 promo

Syringe - 9/7/2023, 2:11 PM

@bkmeijer1 - it was originally 2023 yeah but I believe it's been pushed to January.

bkmeijer1 - 9/7/2023, 4:47 PM

@Syringe - I looked it up, and IMDB says 2024 as well. Don't mind really, since I have quite the backlog of shows anyway

NGFB - 9/4/2023, 12:29 PM

Looks original. . . which is rare these days.

AnthonyVonGeek - 9/4/2023, 12:43 PM

That’s some unattractive women.
Hollywood loves making attractive women look rough these days.

KaptainKhaos - 9/4/2023, 1:44 PM

@AnthonyVonGeek - the absolute audacity of unattractive women existing

Humperdink - 9/4/2023, 9:27 PM

@AnthonyVonGeek -

That’s some unattractive women. Hollywood loves making attractive women look rough these days.

I'm sorry a woman you aren't attracted to was hired to play a detective in a sci-fi TV show.

Thoughts and prayers, I guess? 🤷

TheVisionary25 - 9/4/2023, 1:21 PM

GhostDog - 9/4/2023, 2:48 PM

Looks really intriguing

EnergyVamp - 9/4/2023, 2:52 PM

TV has surpassed movies. TV allows for more creativity and risks. Movies are now so predictable unless they are hits at festivals.
I hope Hollywood learns to scale things back budget-wise and focus on bringing audiences back with creativity.

Kadara - 9/4/2023, 5:12 PM

@EnergyVamp - And the convenience and cost saving of watching a good in my bed, taking endless snack breaks!

Kadara - 9/4/2023, 5:12 PM

@Kadara - *a good tv show*

marvel72 - 9/4/2023, 9:54 PM

Looks promising, I might have to check this out.

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