Following the success of their most recentHarlan Cobenadaptation,Fool Me Once,Netflixhas given the greenlight to two more limited series based on his work,Missing YouandRun Away. The news comes courtesy ofDeadline, with the report revealing that “Quay Street Productions, the ITV Studios-backed production outfit founded by Nicola Shindler, will produce both adaptations after overseeingFool Me Once,” and that Coben himself “will serve as executive producer” on the two projects.
Missing Youwill go into production first, with the report revealing that production will begin later this year in spring 2024.Missing Youwill be written by Victoria Asare-Archer, whohas penned a Harlan Coben adaptation beforewith two episodes ofStay Close, which was released in 2021 and starring Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage, and Sarah Parish.
Run Away, meanwhile, will be written by Danny Brocklehurst, the writer behind this year’s hit adaptation,Fool Me Once, starring Michelle Keegan, Richard Armitage, Adeel Akhtar, and Joanna Lumley.
Released in 2014,Missing Youfollows NYPD Detective Kat Donovan “who feels her whole world explode, as emotions she’s ignored for decades come crashing down on her,” the plot synopsis reads. Stumbling across her ex’s profile on a dating site, an initial spark opens up all manner of suspicion, terror, an unspeakable conspiracy, and the unexplained murder of her father.
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Run Away, meanwhile, was released in 2019, and follows a father who suddenly sees his estranged daughter busking in New York’s Central Park. But she is not the daughter he remembers. Now addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend, he begs her to come home but is soon drawn into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Where criminal gangs rule, where drugs are the main currency, and murder is commonplace,” the official synopsis for the novel reads.
So, it sounds like bothMissing YouandRun Awaywill find audiences very much in familiar “Harlan Coben” territory, and are sure to offeranother twisted tale from the best-selling author.
Missing Youis set to be directed by Sean Spencer (The Lazarus Project, Panic). Isher Sahota will serve as second director, with executive producers Coben, Shindler, Richard Fee, Asare-Archer, Danny Brocklehurst, and Guy Hescott as producer. Written byFool Me Once’sDanny Brocklehurst,Run Awaywill be executive produced by Coben, Shindler, Fee, and Brocklehurst.
Since collaborating with Netflix on 2018’sSafe, there have been seven new Harlan Coben adaptations on the streaming platform. As well asThe StrangerandStay Close, the likes ofThe Woods, The Innocent, andGone for Goodhave also been adapted for the streamer.
The latest collaboration between the author and Netflix isFool Me Once. Released on Netflix on New Year’s Day,Fool Me Oncestars Michelle Keegan, Richard Armitage, Adeel Akhtar, Emmett J. Scanlan and Joanna Lumley, Fool Me Once follows an ex-soldier who somehow sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam and a detective grappling with secrets of his own while investigating the husband’s death.
Fool Me Oncehas been another big hit for Netflix, and saw one of the largest debuts in the streaming service’s history, amassing 61 million views in its first two weeks.
