Next Harlan Coben Netflix thriller already missing key ingredient
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Run away is the next Harlan Coben thriller getting the TV treatment, but some fans are alarmed by a key missing piece. Details about the future series have just been released, and it’s ticking most of the boxes. Seemingly normal people getting thrown into crazy situations? Tick. UK setting? Tick. Richard Armitage? … We said Richard Armitage? *Tumbleweed*.
![[Fool Me Once. Michelle Keegan as Maya Stern and Richard Armitage as Joe Burkett in Fool Me Once. Cr. Matt SquireNetflix ?? 2023]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_184859788-d0de.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
In a shocking plot twist worthy of its own Harlan novel, Richard, 53, is not included in the cast for the upcoming Netflix adaptation of his 2019 book. The huge names including James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver and Alfred Enoch, and Lucian Msamati being revealed did little to distract people from the missing star.
![[Ruth Jones plays Elena Ravenscroft (Tom Jackson)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236913944-06ec.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=436)
He’s become part of the furniture on the show, starring in the last four Harlen shows: The Stranger, Stay Close, Fool Me Once, and Missing You, and so people have come to expect his presence. Social media was flooded with fans asking where he was. ‘BUT WHAT ABOUT RICHARD ARMITAGE?!’ Rachel immediately shouted on X at hearing the news.
![[Missing You. Richard Armitage as Stagger in Missing You. Cr. Vishal Sharma/Netflix ?? 2024.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234756579-e02a.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Thanoskitten230 added: ‘Where is Richard Armitage?!! love seeing him in Harlan Coben dramas.’. Rainy joked: ‘Richard Armitage has finally got parole.’. ‘Is it really Harlan Corben if Richard Armitage doesn’t pop up,’ questioned Siân Bennett-Rodgers.
![[James Nesbitt plays Simon Greene (Pip)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236913946-fad4.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Others refused to accept it wasn’t some sort of mistake, or suggested that Richard will simply be surprising us by still turning up. ‘With a cameo from Richard Armitage RIGHT??????’ typed Sarahrcmos. It was also pointed out that someone is coming for Richard’s title – Jimmy Nesbitt, 60, who also starred in the most recent show Missing You.
