After On Your Tracks, which series based on Harlan Coben are coming to Netflix?

Three new projects are already in the pipeline, including an adaptation of the Myron Bolitar saga.

34 million views in two weeks on Netflix: Sur Tes Traces (I Will found You) marks a new hit for a Harlan Coben series on the platform. After the successes of I miss you in 2025, of Double trap in 2024, of Without a word in 2022, of Don’t move away in 2021, the saga of adaptations of the thriller author continues to be acclaimed. So it will continue.

Harlan Coben has a deal with the platform, which has the right to adapt a large part of his novels (into films or series). Sur Tes Traces is the thirteenth since 2018. Netflix therefore has the right to bring a few more books by the author to the screen and will certainly not deprive itself of it, in view of the audiences. We take stock of what is happening.

The next series is already underway. It will be The Woods, a new adaptation of his novel published in 2007, under the title Dans les bois en France. “Twenty years ago, Paul “Cope” Copeland’s sister, Camille, disappeared from a forest summer camp, a disappearance that tore her family apart. Now a renowned lawyer and a devoted single father to his ten-year-old daughter Cami, Cope appears to have rebuilt his life,” the Netflix synopsis reads. “But when a man’s body is found – twenty years after his supposed death alongside that of Camille – Cope is convinced that his sister may have survived…”

The Woods had already been adapted into a series for the first time for Netflix. A Polish version at the time, released in 2020 under the title Dans les bois en France. On the casting side, we will see Michelle Keegan return, who had carried a previous adaptation by the author: Double Piège (Fool me Once) in 2024. Moreover, Danny Brocklehurst, already behind Fool Me Once, is writing the series. Filming took place in Manchester and the North West of England this year. Release expected in 2027 on Netflix.

At the same time, Netflix acquired the rights to the novel All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin, and Harlan Coben will produce – with Reese Witherspoon – a series adaptation. The plot is described as “a sultry, scandal-filled drama that explores the secrets and social fractures of a wealthy American suburb. A passionate affair between a mother from a very privileged background and a much more modest single father threatens to expose the lies and sins of their entire community.” The series will be written and supervised by Jessica Goldberg (Away, The Path, Parenthood), who will be showrunner. A somewhat different project for the American writer, whose major long-term plan is above all to bring Myron Bolitar to the platform.

Netflix has officially launched the series adaptation of the Myron Bolitar saga, composed of twelve novels by Harlan Coben. The series will follow the famous sports agent and reluctant investigator, the writer’s emblematic hero. For Harlan Coben, this adaptation will be very different from all those made so far with Netflix, since it will be his first series designed to last several seasons, and not a mini-series: “I think that the way we work with Netflix will necessarily change. Myron, Win and Esperanza are more difficult characters to cast. We will probably look for lesser-known actors. They will probably not be stars like those we were able to hire before. Well, you never know… Maybe will we discover a future big star…” The author explains that the main challenge is to convince actors to commit for the long term. Casting is therefore underway, for broadcast which should not arrive before the end of 2027 or even 2028.