By Netflix has had a major success with the New Year’s launch of “Fool Me Once,” the limited series adaptation of the novel of the same name by author Harlan Coben.
The show premiered on New Year’s Day and, in its first week, racked up 37.1 million views and 238 million hours watched – easily eclipsing second place special “Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer” which scored 10.2 million views by comparison.
The series marks the seventh Coben work adapted for Netflix in recent years with “The Stranger” and “Stay Close” adapted in English, “The Woods” and “Hold Tight” adapted in Polish, “The Innocent” in Spanish and “Gone for Good” in French.
Coben also created “Safe” for the streamer and “Shelter” for rival Amazon – the latter being based on the first of his Mickey Bolitar novels. He’s not short on works for them, and he tells the Radio Times this week that at least two more are on the way with the hope being for an annual New Year’s Day release:
“We still have a few [books] left! We’re doing one right now in Poland based off my book Just One Look, we’re filming and Netflix Poland is working on. Also working on one in South America, believe it or not.
There’s no doubt that if Netflix wants us back, which hopefully everyone watching will make this happen, I’ll be working with [executive producers] Nicola [Shindler], Richard [Fee] and [writer] Danny [Brocklehurst] on at least another one or two. We want to keep this going, we love this kind of yearly thing if we can.
We skipped last year but we’d love to try doing it where we have that New Year’s Day release for everybody, they can watch us hungover and we can join them in the new year.”
Coben adds that he’d be up for a “Fool Me Once” spin-off centered around Adeel Akhtar’s Detective Sergeant Sami Kierce character:
“If Adeel wants to do it and we all want to do it, I would love to spin-off and do something with Adeel again. He’s an unusual talent and fun to work with. I love the dynamic between him and Dino as Marty.”
Coben’s 2001 novel “Tell No One” was already adapted for the screen as the acclaimed 2006 French film of the same name, whilst “No Second Chance” was turned into a mini-series.
Of his standalone novels, around seven or eight remain left to adapt including “Play Dead,” “Missing You,” “Caught,” and “Six Years”.
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