The writer who brought Fool Me Once to TV has hinted that there is one thing totally different about his next Netflix adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel.
We spoke exclusively to Danny Brocklehurst, the man who brought Coben’s iconic novel to life for Netflix.
The show was always going to be a success, but no one could have predicted the incredible response.
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Fool Me Once is now one of the top 10 shows in the history of Netflix.
Brocklehurst is also the writer behind Brassic, yet another hit show that is dominating Netflix of late.
Unsurprisingly, the streamer is keen to keep him around and capitalise on the success of Fool Me Once, and have already ordered two follow-up adaptations of Harlan Coben novels.
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The greenlit ones were Missing You, and Run Away.
While Missing You will not be written by Brocklehurst, but instead by Victoria Asare-Archer, he will serve as an executive producer.
However, Run Away will be penned by Brocklehurst, and in our exclusive interview with the Fool Me Once TV creator, we asked him what viewers could expect from the follow up – and what would be different about the show from Fool Me Once.
Brocklehurst said: “I think there's a sort of formula to our Harlem thrillers. You know, they're very twisty-turny. They have great hooks.
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“But Fool Me Once had this sort of real mystery baked into it, how does a dead man appear in the nanny cam?
“Which I think people really kind of ran with, you know, it's very difficult to get that every time, because that's a very, very big concept.”
Regarding his new Coben thriller, however, he said: “I think Run Away is not quite as big a concept.
“It's got, you know, it's got a reasonable concept to it, but what we've leaned into there is that it's sort of emotional roller coaster of it all for the characters.
“So, it will still be the same sort of twisty-turny, thriller-y, hook-y formula, but with perhaps a little bit more sort of family-based emotional content."
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“Fool Me Once was really, you know - once you were on that thriller track, it just went for it.”
With the novel already out there to tear through in preparation, Netflix have released the following synopsis for Run Away – and it sounds like a doozy.
It reads: “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.
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“But it turns out she’s not alone and an argument escalates into shocking violence that will shatter Simon’s life all over again.
“His search for his daughter will take him into a dangerous underworld, revealing deep secrets that could tear his family apart forever.”
Personally, I can’t wait.
Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, TV
Michael Slavin