Netflix has landed on its latest Harlan Coben adaptation.
The streamer is continuing its lucrative partnership with the American author with a British version of The Woods starring Based on a True Story’s Tom Bateman and Fool Me Once lead Michelle Keegan alongside the likes of Mandeep Dhillon (MobLand), Pearce Quigley (Small Prophets) and Rade Sherbedgia (Slow Horses).
In The Woods, which was already adapted by Netflix in Poland several years ago, Bateman plays Paul ‘Cope’ Copeland, whose sister Camille vanished from a summer camp, a loss that tore his family apart. Now a top barrister and devoted single father to 10-year-old daughter Cami, Cope appears to have rebuilt his life. But when the body of a man turns up – 20 years after he was supposedly murdered alongside Camille – Cope becomes convinced his sister may have made it out of the woods alive too. Determined to uncover the truth, Cope reunites with his first love, Lucy Silverfield (Keegan), and together they begin a search for answers, unearthing years of lies, cover-ups, and family secrets that threaten to destroy everything he has built.
Coben’s shows have been top-raters for the streamer and Keegan was lead in Fool Me Once, which was 2024’s most-watched Netflix show. The Woods will once again be made with Coben’s long-time collaborator Danny Brocklehurst and producer 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 also star.
Writers are Brocklehurst with 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 a haunting and very personal story. It has everything you expect from us — twisty, turning, gasp-inducing — but at the core is a story of old love and yearning.”
