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Neil Gaiman’s ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Are Coming to Haunt Netflix

In another exciting announcement from Geeked Week ’23, the ‘Sandman Universe’ live-action series following two mystery loving ghosts was officially confirmed a with teaser trailer and first look photos. 

Dead Boy Detectives is coming to Netflix! Geeked Week ’23 revealed the first fun teaser trailer over the weekend for the series based on the comic by Neil Gaiman.

Do you have a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core memories? You may want to ring the Dead Boy Detectives. Meet Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, the two are best friends and ghosts... who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together, including escaping evil witches, Hell, and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they can crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

As part of “The Sandman Universe” for Netflix, Dead Boy Detectives was developed for television by Steve Yockey, who wrote the first episode and serves as showrunner alongside Beth Schwartz as co-showrunner. Greg Berlanti, Yockey, Schwartz, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Gaiman executive produce the series from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television. The supernatural VFX are created by Clear Angle Studios and Encore VFX, with Jennifer Mochinski acting as visual effects producer.

Dead Boy Detectives will stream on Netflix in 2024.

Have a spooky good time with the first official teaser trailer:

Source: Netflix

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