I mean, sure, there’s a theme here but true crime, and all that surrounds it, continues to gather huge interests for audiences of all shapes and sizes, and these three new Netflix trailers hold a connection but they have very different stories indeed, including the real-life unsolved murder case of British journalist, Jill Dando.

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Bodies

Let’s start with the Stephen Graham-starrer Bodies, based on the graphic novel by Si Spencer, this is a little different from your usual police procedural drama as it spans 1890, 1941, 2023 and 2053 as a body – and it’s the same body – is found on Longharvest Lane in London’s East End, and a detective from each era must investigate.

As connections are drawn across the decades, the detectives soon discover their investigations are linked, and an enigmatic political leader – Elias Mannix (Graham) – becomes increasingly central. To solve the mystery, the four detectives must somehow collaborate and uncover a conspiracy spanning over 150 years…

Created by Paul Tomalin, who co-writers with Danusia Samal, it co-stars Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Shira Haas, Amaka Okafor, and Kyle Soller, check out the the trailer for this 8-episode series, streaming from 19 October:

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The Killer

Next up is David Fincher’s The Killer, starring Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte and Tilda Swinton. With a screenplay from Andrew Kevin Walker, it’s based on the graphic novel series “The Killer” written by Alexis Nolent (a.k.a Matz) and illustrated by Luc Jacamo.

For this one, you only need the synopsis which says “After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.”

Check it out below, this one has its World Premiere on 3 September at the Venice Film Festival, with a limited cinema release and hitting Netflix on 10 November:

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Who Killed Jill Dando?

And then we’ve got Who Killed Jill Dando from 26 September, which is something I remember on the news in my younger years. It was an unusual case then, and remains so as British broadcasting legend, Jill Dando, was killed by a single bullet on her doorstep in 1999 in broad daylight.

Despite one of the biggest homicide investigations in British history, the murder remains unsolved, and this 3-part series takes us inside the true crime mystery as her family, friends, journalists, investigators and lawyers wrestle with the question: Who Killed Jill Dando?

Whether they’ll reveal new information is unknown, but it does seem like that mystery – for someone quite high profile – might stay, it should be worth investigating, here’s that trailer:

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