Harlen Coben’s Missing You comes to Netflix at the very start of 2025 – and here’s the trailer for the new Netflix production.
The Harlan Coben thriller is quickly becoming its own subgenre. So far, 12 of his high-octane, twisty novels have made their way to the screen. Among the highlights, Tell No One was adapted into a terrific French film of the same name in 2006, directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Francois Cluzet and Kristen Scott Thomas.
On television, The Five, Safe, Innocent, Just One Look, No Second Chance, The Stranger, The Woods, Gone For Good, Stay Close, Hold Me Tight and – most recently – Fool Me Once have all been adapted variously for Channel 5 and Netflix. It’s thanks to the huge success of Fool Me Once, which landed on Netflix last Christmas, that two more adaptations were commissioned.
The first is Missing You. The synopsis for which reads as follows:
Missing You focuses on Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar), a detective specializing in Missing Persons. Eleven years ago, her fiance Josh, the love of her life, vanished without a trace, and she hasn’t heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s unexpected reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
The cast also includes Ashley Walters, Richard Armitage, Sir Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer, Mary Malone, Lisa Faulkner and James Nesbitt.
Victoria Asare-Archer adapted the series, with episodes also written by Sumerah Srivasta. Nimer Rashed and Isher Sahota directed the series.
Missing You will stream on Netflix from the 1st January 2025.
Watch the trailer below:
The second book to be adapted will be Run Away, which follows Simon, whose perfect life is shattered when his oldest daughter, Paige, runs away and is found strung out on drugs in a city park. Simon’s search takes him into a dangerous underworld, where a shocking act of violence changes his life. It will be written by Danny Brocklehurst.
According to Deadline, Netflix has also recently commissioned an adaptation of Coben’s novel I Will Find You, which follows a father imprisoned for murdering his son, who must break out when he discovers his son may still be alive.
It marks the first Coben television series in the US. Quantum Leap’s Robert Hull will adapt and act as showrunner. Expect a lot more Coben-related trailers in the future!
