A thrilling new Netflix drama filmed in Bolton will be screened this week.
Bodies, starring Stephen Graham, is based on the graphic novel by Si Spencer.
Film crews rolled into Bolton town centre last September for filming on Le Mans Crescent, which has a starring role in many a hit drama, not least Peaky Blinders, which Graham also starred in.
Netflix has released a trailer teasing the new series which centres on four detectives, four time periods and one dead body in the backstreets of Whitechapel.
The detectives in different timelines, more than 160 years apart, are connected by the same perplexing case in the fantasy thriller.
In 1890, a body is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End and Edmond Hillinghead (Kyle Soller) puts his reputation on the line to crack the case.
In 1941, the same body piques the interest of intrepid adventurer Karl Whiteman (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) while in 2023, Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan (Amaka Okafor) faces an uphill battle to unmask a murderer.
There’s the 1890s overachiever Edmond Hillinghead, played by Anna Karenina’s Kyle Soller.
Then there is the dashing, slightly dodgy, 1940s Karl Whiteman, played by The Queen’s Gambit’s Jacob Fortune-Lloyd.
There is the brave detective and mother, Detective Sergeant Shahara Hasan harking from the 2010s, played by Greatest Days’ Amaka Okafor. And last but not least, Maplewood, an enigmatic amnesiac from post-apocalyptic 2050, played by Unorthodox’s Shira Haas.
Graham's central role is as yet a mystery.
The eight part drama series is a mix of sci-fi, murder mystery and period drama.
Paul Tomalin, who adapted the “utterly insane and brilliant” novel for the series, said: “When I was approached and told: ‘We want to do this show that’s four different cops, one murder, but it’s the same body over four different timelines,’ I literally said: ‘Thanks but no thanks.’ As I walked away, I was like: ‘You’re an idiot’. Because the Jack the Ripper stuff, the Blitz stuff, the Line of Duty stuff, the future dystopia stuff -this was wild. The ingredients were too unique not to be bound together.”
Bodies is released on Netflix on October 19.
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