Bodies is a British science fiction mystery thriller television miniseries primarily written and created for Netflix by Paul Tomalin and directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner and Haolu Wang. It is based on the 2014âÂÂ15 DC Vertigo graphic novel of the same name, written by Si Spencer and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick and Phil Winslade. The series consists of eight episodes and premiered on Netflix on 19 October 2023.
The story starts with the appearance of a dead body in Longharvest Lane in the Whitechapel area of London. This same body appears in the same location in four different years1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053and leads to four investigations by Metropolitan Police detectives that eventually become interlinked, with far-reaching consequences.
The series was announced in February 2022 with Paul Tomalin set as creator and executive producer. Moonage Pictures was set to produce. Danusia Samal also serves as a writer. The score was provided by Jon Opstad
In July 2022, Shira Haas, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Amaka Okafor, Kyle Soller, and Stephen Graham were cast as the four lead protagonists (Metropolitan Police detectives) and the lead antagonist, respectively.
Filming began on 16 May 2022. Joel Devlin was the cinematographer.
Many scenes were filmed in the Museums Quarter of Kingston upon Hull, making use of the Victorian buildings in the city centre, including the fictional Harker House being filmed at Wilberforce House. Other scenes were filmed in York, on board Hornblower Cruises' boats and at the City Cruises Boatyard. Many of the futuristic scenes were filmed at the University of Leeds and at Sheffield's Little Kelham and Park Hill developments. Scenes in the fictional Longharvest Lane were filmed at Wentworth Woodhouse, near a minor side entrance in the northwest corner of the house, a section normally unseen by the public. Studio filming was carried out at Versa Studios, in Leeds. The series was completed on 21 October 2022.
The Irish Independent notes a recurrence of motifs, words (such as 'Know you are loved') and names (such as 'Harker' and 'Mannix'), akin to the 2012 film Cloud Atlas.