Netflix releasing new thriller from creator of The Stranger this year

If you’ve not seen The Stranger yet you need to head over to Netflix and start binging – a warning, though, it’s seriously addictive.

The series follows lead character Adam Price (Richard Armitage) as his life is turned upside down by a stranger (Hannah John-Kamen), when she tells him a shocking secret about his wife Corrine (Dervla Kirwan).

Our region plays a central role in the series, as the vast majority of scenes are shot in Greater Manchester. Places like Bolton, Stockport, Bury, Eccles, Whalley Range and Ancoats were used to recreate the fictional town of Cedarfield – here’s our full article on all the places it was filmed around here.

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If you have watched it, and were as addicted as I was, then there’s some good news for you, as the show’s creator has another Netflix thriller in the pipeline.

Author Harlan Coben’s 2007 book The Woods is currently being adapted, with Coben on board as executive producer – this time, however, the action is taking place over in Poland.

People spotted a mysterious listing for the new series on Netflix, and when one shared a screenshot on Twitter Coben replied with: “My advice? Put this on your Netflix ‘remind me’ or watchlist now.”

From the screenshot it appears The Woods will be out this year, and it sounds just as gripping as The Stranger: “A Warsaw prosecutor’s hopes rise when a body is found and linked to his sister’s disappearance 25 years earlier.”

Deadline has released some more details about the plot, revealing it will take place in both 1994 and 2019, and that it focuses on a Warsaw prosecutor called Paweł Kopiński whose sister disappeared in the woods at summer camp 25 years ago.

When the body of the boy who disappeared alongside his sister is discovered, Paweł finds evidence that she may be alive.

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Director Leszek Dawid said: “The Woods is a story full of secrets – a story you will want to follow. Try as hard as you might to bury unresolved issues from the past, but one day they will find their way back to you anyway.

“What I find fascinating is the way the film deals with the idea of a carefree adolescence. Looking back at the time in your life when you lived your most beautiful but, at the same time, your most atrocious experiences. Learning the truth. You cannot go any further without doing that.”

I can’t wait for this one…