Netflix has released the full-length trailer for Run Away, Harlan Coben’s next thriller starring James Nesbitt in the lead role. The eight-part limited series will be arriving on Netflix globally on 1st January 2026.
Run Away stars James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver and Alfred Enoch, and follows 2025’s hugely successful limited thriller series Missing You.
Run Away is produced by Coben regular Quay Street Productions. Harlan Coben will serve as executive producer through his company, Final Twist Productions. Danny Brocklehurst is the lead writer and serves as executive producer. Quay Street Productions, Nicola Shindler and Richard Fee are executive producers. Nimer Rashed is lead director and executive producer.
In keeping with previous Quay Street Harlan Coben adaptations, Run Away will relocate the story from the US to the UK. Filming took place in and around Manchester and the North West of England.
Run Away is one of 13 titles from bestselling author Harlan Coben produced for Netflix. Coben continues his work with local screenwriters from around the world to bring his novels to life on screen, so far across four languages.
Harlan Coben titles currently available to stream on Netflix include: Missing You, Fool Me Once, Gone For Good, The Stranger, Stay Close, The Innocent, Hold Tight, The Woods, Safe. Harlan Coben titles announced: Run Away, Caught, Just One Look, I Will Find You.
Run Away follows 2025’s hugely successful limited thriller series Missing You, also 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 2024.
Quay Street Productions was founded in 2021 by multi-award-winning producer Nicola Shindler. It creates contemporary, provocative and entertaining drama for UK and global audiences. Based in Manchester, the company collaborates with both new and established writers to tell diverse and compelling stories.
Projects in production include Tip Toe, an upcoming drama written by Bafta-winner Russell T Davies for Channel 4 and The Blame written by Megan Gallagher for ITV and ITVX. Quay Street Productions is part of ITV Studios.
