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Netflix and Canal+ in France have ordered Safe, a thriller from author Harlan Coben starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter).
Hall was the star of Showtime series Dexter from 2006 to 2013 and in Safe will play a pediatric surgeon raising two teenage daughters Jenny and Carrie alone after the death of his wife, when a murder and disappearance occur and change all of their lives.
StudioCanal’s U.K.-based production company Red will make the series, which will be on Canal+ in France and Netflix globally. StudioCanal will sell any remaining and secondary rights. Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless) has written the script for the eight-part drama.
Red’s credits include Happy Valley, which was acquired by Netflix, but Safe is its first original for the streaming service. Based in Manchester, England, and run by Nicola Shindler, it was acquired by StudioCanal in 2013.
Netflix has started to launch local originals to complement those coming out of the U.S. In France it has commissioned political drama Marseille from Federation and the upcoming sci-fi drama Osmosis.
Netflix is increasingly working with local partners and then scooping the global rights outside of the home territory. The willingness of international broadcasters such as Canal+ to greenlight shows in English helps in that regard. Other international Netflix coproductions include Troy and Giri/Haji with the BBC in the U.K.
Harlan Coban, meanwhile, has moved into TV. His first small screen project was The Five for Sky in the U.K.
