Netflix has just landed another hot drama series and this one stars Adam Driver.
The streamer has picked up Rabbit, Rabbit, a hostage crime drama that is described as in the vein of Dog Day Afternoon, after major interest across town. It handed the project a straight-to-series order.
The contemporary series is set at a truck stop in southern Illinois. When an escaped convict is cornered by law enforcement at a truck stop, he takes hostages in an effort to bargain for his freedom. But the standoff soon escalates into an unmanageable social experiment with his captives, as well as an emotional poker match with a veteran FBI Crisis Negotiator trained in “tactical empathy.”
It is being written by Peter Craig, who wrote the screenplay for Top Gun: Maverick and created Apple series Dope Thief, which starred Brian Tyree Henry, and directed by Philip Barantini, the man behind the infamous one-shot style of Netflix’s smash hit British series Adolescence.
Deadline understands that a script was sent out using the Embershot software, where buyers can only read it through the app and it gives writers and their teams data as to when it was read and by whom. The service gained prominence after Zach Cregger revealed that he used it to send out the script for Weapons.
It’s believed that Netflix took the project off the table in the early stages of it being taken out and handed it a straight-to-series order. It could shoot as early as next year.
Rabbit, Rabbit is produced by Ozark producer MRC TV, which has a first-look TV deal with Craig’s Night Owl. Craig and Bryan Unkeless will exec produce for Night Owl, Barantini and Samantha Beddoe will exec produce for their It’s All Made Up Productions company. Driver also exec produces.
Barantini runs It’s All Made Up Productions with Beddoe. The company, which has minority investment from Last Week Tonight producer Avalon, also produced the Boiling Point series, which starred Stephen Graham, for the BBC. It’s All Made Up also recently had feature film Wasteman, directed by Cal McMau and written by Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran, at TIFF. The prison thriller stars Tom Blyth and David Jonsson.
Last year, Craig, who is also known for writing The Town, launched film and TV production company Night Owl with I, Tonya producer Bryan Unkeless. The company, which has a first-look TV deal with Ozark producer MRC, also has two projects already set up at Netflix; its adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s novel Remarkably Bright Creatures, starring Sally Field, is currently in post, while Fight for ’84, based on the true story of the coach of the 1984 US Olympic Boxing team, starring Jamie Foxx, is in production.
Driver is repped by WME. Barantini is repped by CAA, Untitled, Independent Talent Group, and JSSK. Craig, Unkeless and Beddoe are repped by Untitled Entertainment and CAA. Unkeless is represented by Untitled. Unkeless is also repped by Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan LLP.
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