Jason Bateman as Vince, Jude Legislation as Jake in episode 103 of Black Rabbit. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Netflix is teaming up with Ozark producer, director, and actor Jason Bateman for a brand new restricted collection known as Black Rabbit, which not too long ago wrapped filming. Bateman will star within the collection that includes Incredible Beasts star Jude Legislation. Right here’s the history replace on the collection as of June 2025, with first look photographs and the official launch date confirmed for September 2025.
The drama, announced in October 2022, hails from Bateman and Michael Costigan’s Mixture Movies, Legislation and Ben Jackson’s Riff Raff Leisure, Zach Baylin and Kate Susman’s Youngblood Footage, and Automatik Leisure.
Jason Bateman will direct the primary two episodes of the upcoming restricted collection. After taking cost of a number of episodes of Netflix’s smash-hit crime drama Ozark, the actor has additional explored the world of directing. His former Ozark co-star and on-screen spouse, Laura Linney, will direct the third and fourth episodes. In the meantime, Ben Semanoff (Ozark, Yellowjackets) directs episodes 5 and 6, and lastly, Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) directs the seventh and eighth episodes.
The scripts for Black Rabbit have been written by Zach Baylin, who acquired huge approval for his script for the Will Smith-starring film King Richard, and his spouse and artistic accomplice, Kate Susman, for whom Black Rabbit might be a screenwriting debut.
That is certainly one of many projects coming from Bateman and his manufacturing firm, Mixture Movies, which works with Netflix beneath a inventive partnership that was struck back in July 2018. Different notable initiatives embrace Florida Man, Darkish Wire, Here Comes the Flood, Film Evening, and plenty of extra.
Right here’s all the things else we find out about Netflix’s Black Rabbit:
What’s the plot of Black Rabbit?
The premise for Black Rabbit remains to be being stored closely beneath wraps past a brief logline:
“When the proprietor of a New York Metropolis hotspot permits his turbulent brother again in his life, he opens the door to escalating risks that threaten to convey down all the things he’s constructed.”
Black Rabbit. Jude Legislation as Jake in episode 101 of Black Rabbit. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Black Rabbit. (L to R) Jason Bateman as Vince, Jude Legislation as Jake in episode 103 of Black Rabbit. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Black Rabbit. (L to R) Jude Legislation as Jake, Jason Bateman as Vince in episode 108 of Black Rabbit. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Black Rabbit. (L to R) Jason Bateman as Vince, Jude Legislation as Jake in episode 104 of Black Rabbit. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Who’s forged in Black Rabbit?
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It has been confirmed that Black Rabbit’s director, Jason Bateman, will even star all through the collection as one of many essential characters. Bateman’s latest credit embrace the extremely acclaimed Netflix drama Ozark, which concluded in 2022. Bateman might be joined by Incredible Beasts and Sherlock Holmes star Jude Legislation.
By means of filming, we additionally know that Dagmara Dominczyk has been forged within the collection. The Polish actress is finest recognized for the latest launch of Miller’s Woman (obtainable on Netflix in the US from April), Succession, and Priscilla.
Additionally within the forged are:
- Amaka Okafor (Our bodies, The Responder) as Roxie.
- Cleopatra Coleman (Insurgent Moon — Half One: A Baby of Hearth, Clipped) as Estelle.
- Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London, Sluggish Horses) as Wes.
- Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) as Val.
- Chris Coy (Bass Reeves) as Babbitt.
- Troy Kotsur (CODA) as Joe Mancuso.
- Abbey Lee (Florida Man) as Anna.
- Odessa Younger (Mothering Sunday) as Gen.
- Robin De Jesus (The Boys within the Band) as Tony.
- Amir Malaklou (The Previous Man) as Naveen.
- Don Harvey (Pam & Tommy) as Matt.
- Forrest Weber (The Blacklist) as Junior.
- Francis Benhamou (Expensive Edward) as Lisa Klein.
- Gus Birney (Shining Vale) as Mel Whitney.
- John Ales (American Fiction) as Jules Zablonski.
- Steve Witting (Tulsa King) as “Andy.”
What number of episodes might be in Black Rabbit?
The variety of episodes for Netflix’s Black Rabbit hasn’t been disclosed, however a logical estimate can be between 6 and 10.
It has been confirmed that every episode might be one hour lengthy.
What’s the manufacturing standing of Black Rabbit?
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As we reported in February 2024, filming for Black Rabbit was underway on April fifteenth, 2024, with a lot of the filming in public view all through New York Metropolis. Metro was the primary to launch photographs of the pair. After 163 days of filming the mission, Black Rabbit wrapped on September twenty fifth, 2024. Quite a few casting calls can be found for background actors for the manufacturing, which seems prefer it has the codename of Gary, The Canine.
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What’s the Netflix launch date for Black Rabbit?
At Subsequent on Netflix 2025, the streamer confirmed a 2025 launch window, and we discovered over the Summer season that the restricted collection would premiere in September. Now, alongside some first seems, Netflix has confirmed that the collection will arrive in full on Thursday, September 18, 2025.
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