Neil Gaiman has spent several years doing his best to adapt his most successful novels and graphic novels to the small screen, such as good omensThe Sandman o American Gods. The new adaptation of his work will be Dead Boy Detectives for Netflix, previously scheduled to reach HBO Max.
Dead Boy Detectives will be a series of supernatural intrigue starring Edwin Payne y Charles Rowlandtwo characters created by Neil Gaiman and whom we first saw in the graphic novels of The Sandman which were published in 1991.
Dead Boy Detectives is closely related to The Sandman
Earlier this April, the director of photography for Dead Boy Detectives confirmed that filming had finished First season of this new series of Netflix. In the last days Neil Gaiman has congratulated the team through Twitter to finish the production stage of the serie.
Responding to his Tweet, one person asked the creator of Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland if Dead Boy Detectives would be set in the same universe as The Sandman and that Doom Patrolor if it would happen in a world of its own.
Neil Gaiman clarified that he could now confirm that Dead Boy Detectives It would be set in the same universe as The Sandman. With this, the most famous streaming chain on the market will soon have two series of the Sandmanversoif it can be called that.
The first season of The Sandman premiered on Netflix last August 2022, and Neil Gaiman has already confirmed that it will have a second season In the near future. And on the other hand we will have Dead Boy Detectives, which does not yet have a release date but which we hope to see soon.