“Fool Me Once” star Michelle Keegan is reuniting with Netflix and Harlan Coben for another of the writer’s adaptations, “The Woods.”
She will star in the eight-episode series alongside Tom Bateman, Mandeep Dhillon and Pearce Quigley, among others.
“The Woods” tells the story of barrister and single father Paul ‘Cope’ Copeland, whose sister Camille vanished from a summer camp two decades earlier. After her disappearance tore his family apart, Cope was determined to rebuild his life but, twenty years later, the traumatic event returns to haunt him after the body of a man who was believed to have been murdered alongside Camille unexpectedly turns up. With the help of Cope’s first love, Lucy, the lawyer is determined to turn every skeleton out of the closet in his search for answers – and to find out whether Camille might still be alive.
Rounding out the cast are Rade Sherbedgia, 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.
Keegan’s last Harlan Coben project, “Missing You,” garnered 107.5 million global views and became one of Netflix’s most popular shows of 2024, including being the most-watched series for the first half of that year.
“‘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,” said Coben. Working with a cast led by Tom Bateman, Michelle Keegan, Mandeep Dhillon, Pearce Quigley, James Buckley, Tom Allen – it’s an embarrassment of riches.”
Coben’s longtime U.K. collaborators Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios) return to produce the series, which is written by Danny Brocklehurst (“Fool Me Once”), Charlotte Coben, Tom Farrelly and Joe Forrest.
Directors are Andy De Emmony, Claire Tailyour and Isher Sahota.
Coben exec produces alongside Nicola Shindler, Richard Fee, Danny Brocklehurst, Charlotte Coben. Will McDonagh is producer and Orla Maxwell casting director.
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