HBO Max has given a series order to Dead Boy Detectives, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s comic book series from Greg Berlanti (The Flash), Jeremy Carver (Doom Patrol) and Steve Yockey (The Flight Attendant).
The news comes after the series was given a pilot order last fall, which has now become an eight-episode first season. Gaiman’s series follows a pair of recently deceased teenagers who decided not to go to the afterlife and investigate supernatural crimes on Earth.
The official logline for Dead Boy Detectives is “a ghost story that explores loss, grief, and death through the lens of Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland, two dead British teenagers, and their very alive friend, Crystal Palace. So, it’s a lot like a vintage detective series — only darker and on acid.”
The series stars George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri (Fate: The Winx Saga) as Dead Boy Detectives Edwin Payne (Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Revri), and Kassius Nelson (Last Night in Soho) as Crystal Palace. Also starring is Briana Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) as Jenny the Butcher, Ruth Connell (Supernatural) as the Night Nurse, Yuyu Kitamura (The Expatriates) as Niko, and Jenn Lyon (Claws) as Esther.
Yokey wrote the pilot and will showrun the series as well as executive produce alongside Berlanti, Carver and Sarah Schechter. The pilot was directed by Lee Toland Krieger (Superman & Lois).
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