The cast has been named for the next 8×60 Harlan Coben adaptation from Quay Street and Netflix.
Harlan Coben’s Run Away will feature James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver, Alfred Enoch and Lucian Msamati in the cast
Harlan Coben will serve as executive producer through his company, Final Twist Productions. Danny Brocklehurst is the lead writer and serves as executive producer. Run Away is produced by Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios).
Simon had the perfect life: loving wife and kids, great job, beautiful home. But then his eldest daughter Paige ran away and everything fell apart. So now when he finds her, vulnerable and strung out on drugs in a city park, he finally has the chance to bring his little girl home. But it turns out she’s not alone, and an argument escalates into shocking violence. In the aftermath, Simon loses his daughter all over again, and his search to find her will take him into a dangerous underworld, revealing deep secrets that could tear his family apart forever.
As with previous Harlan Coben adaptations, Run Away will relocate the story from the US to the UK. Filming will commence around Manchester and the North West of England this month.
The cast includes James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver, Alfred Enoch, Lucian Msamati, Jon Pointing, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Annette Badland, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Ellie de Lange, Adrian Greensmith, Ellie Henry, Ingrid Oliver, Finty Williams, Joe McGann, Amy Gledehill and more
Along with Coben, Executive Producers are Nicola Shindler, Richard Fee, Danny Brocklehurst. Series Producer is Guy Hescott (Without Sin, Missing You), Producer is Will McDonagh (Significant Other) and the Associate Producer is Charlotte Coben (Dead Hot, Fool Me Once)
Harlan Coben said: “Jimmy Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Alfred Enoch, Lucian Msamati and Minnie Driver – the cast is an embarrassment of riches. I can’t wait to start filming.”
Danny Brocklehurst said: “It’s an enormous pleasure to be reteaming with Netflix, Harlan and the amazing Quay Street Productions team to produce another twisty thriller. Fool Me Once’s phenomenal success has set a high bar but with Run Away’s emotionally universal storyline and great cast, hopefully we can give audiences another fantastic ride”.
Executive Producers for Quay Street Productions, Nicola Shindler and Richard Fee said: “We’re thrilled to be working with such a magnificent group of actors and the brilliant Danny Brocklehurst to bring this gripping Harlan Coben story to life.”
Run Away follows 2025’s hugely successful limited thriller series Missing You, by Quay Street Productions, which starred Rosalind Eleazar, Richard Armitage, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer and Ashley Walters, and 2024’s Fool Me Once, which starred Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage and Joanna Lumley, and joined Netflix’s chart of its Top 10 most popular English-language shows of all time, with over 94 million views since launch in January.
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