Adam Driver Set to Star in Hostage Crime Drama Series RABBIT, RABBIT at Netflix
Netflix has picked up Rabbit, Rabbit, a hostage crime drama starring Adam Driver (Star Wars, BlackKklansman), that is described as in the vein of Dog Day Afternoon. There was major interest in the project across networks and streamers. Netflix has 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 the 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.
The series is looking to start shooting sometime next year.
via: Deadline