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Netflix has landed connected its latest Harlan Coben adaptation.
The streamer is continuing its lucrative business pinch nan American writer pinch a British type of The Woods starring Based connected a True Story’s Tom Bateman and Fool Me Once lead Michelle Keegan alongside nan likes of Mandeep Dhillon (MobLand), Pearce Quigley (Small Prophets) and Rade Sherbedgia (Slow Horses).
In The Woods, which was already adapted by Netflix successful Poland respective years ago, Bateman plays Paul ‘Cope’ Copeland, whose sister Camille vanished from a summertime camp, a nonaccomplishment that tore his family apart. Now a apical barrister and devoted azygous begetter to 10-year-old girl Cami, Cope appears to person rebuilt his life. But erstwhile nan assemblage of a man turns up – 20 years aft he was supposedly murdered alongside Camille – Cope becomes convinced his sister whitethorn person made it retired of nan woods live too. Determined to uncover nan truth, Cope reunites pinch his first love, Lucy Silverfield (Keegan), and together they statesman a hunt for answers, unearthing years of lies, cover-ups, and family secrets that frighten to destruct everything he has built.
Coben’s shows person been top-raters for nan streamer and Keegan was lead successful Fool Me Once, which was 2024’s most-watched Netflix show. The Woods will erstwhile again beryllium made pinch Coben’s long-time collaborator Danny Brocklehurst and shaper Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street. James Buckley, Shannon Watson, Pamela Nomvete, Kerry Howard, Roger Barclay, Simon Lowe, Mila Moring, Dean Fagan, Tom Allen, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Charlotte Beaumont, Christopher Harper, Tre Jordan Holmes, Nicola Stephenson, Harry Goodson-Bevan, Joe Dolan, Thea Achillea, Flynn Allen and Hannah McIver besides star.
Writers are Brocklehurst pinch Charlotte Coben (Dead Hot, Run Away), Tom Farrelly (Lazarus, Judge Dee’s Mystery) and Joe Forrest (After The Flood). EPs are Harlan Coben, Shindler, Richard Fee, Brocklehurst and Charlotte Coben.
Harlan Coben said: “The Woods is simply a haunting and very individual story. It has everything you expect from america — twisty, turning, gasp-inducing — but astatine nan halfway is simply a communicative of aged emotion and yearning.”
