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The leads have been set for HBO Max’s pilot for Neil Gaiman’s Dead Boy Detectives, according to Variety.

Newcomer George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri (“The Lodge”), and Kassius Nelson (“Last Night in Soho,”)  will play the three main roles.  Revri and Rexstrew will play the deceased detectives, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, with Nelson as Crystal Palace, a living psychic medium.

Other cast members include Alexander Calvert (“Supernatural,” “Arrow”) as Thomas The Cat King; Briana Cuoco (“The Flight Attendant,” “Harley Quinn”) as Jenny, “a mildly punk butcher and a confidant of Crystal Palace”; Jenn Lyon (“Claws,” “Justified”) as Esther, “a witch obsessed with youth and immortality”; Yuyu Kitamura (“The Expatriates,” “Mother Tongue”) as Niko, a boarding school student intent on joining the Dead Boy Detectives agency who now lives above Jenny’s butcher shop;  and Ruth Connell (“Supernatural,” “For the Love of George”) who will play Night Nurse, which she already played on Doom Patrol.

Steve Yockey is writing and directing the pilot.