{"id":14150,"date":"2025-08-21T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14150\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:41:13","slug":"black-rabbit-is-a-netflix-thriller-starring-jason-bateman-jude-law-as-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14150\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Rabbit Is a Netflix Thriller Starring Jason Bateman &#038; Jude Law as Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\"> Jason Bateman and Jude Law will play estranged brothers in Black Rabbit, Netflix&#8217;s new limited series that dives into the dark side of New York City\u2019s nightlife. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Set in an exclusive downtown club, the show follows the chaotic lives of two brothers who built the scene\u2014and are now struggling to survive it. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">With Ozark&#8217;s Bateman and Mr. Ripley star Law at the center, Black Rabbit is shaping up to be our ultimate autumn TV obsession.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">And we haven&#8217;t got long to wait, with the eight-part series launching this September.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>Black Rabbit release date<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Black Rabbit starts on Netflix on <strong data-node-id=\"8.2\">Thursday, September 18. <\/strong>All eight episodes in the series will be available on that day. <\/p>\n<p>What is Black Rabbit about?<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Black Rabbit follows two estranged brothers who are running a secretive downtown club as tensions\u2014and secrets\u2014spiral out of control.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">The official synopsis reads: &#8220;Jake Friedkin (Jude Law) is the charismatic owner of Black Rabbit, a restaurant and VIP lounge, poised to become the hottest spot in New York. But when his brother, Vince (Jason Bateman), returns to the business unexpectedly, trouble soon follows; opening the door to old traumas and new dangers that threaten to bring down everything they\u2019ve built. Black Rabbit is a propulsive thrill ride and character examination about the way an unbreakable bond between two brothers can shatter their world and everything in its orbit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"jude law and jason bateman in black rabbit\" title=\"Jude Law and Jason Bateman in Black Rabbit\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/jude-law-and-jason-bateman-in-black-rabbit-68a704eac6746.png\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-theme-key=\"base-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/tv\/a65861464\/black-rabbit-netflix-release-date\/&amp;description=- Cosmopolitan.com&amp;media=https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/jude-law-and-jason-bateman-in-black-rabbit-68a704eac6746.png?resize=1600:*\" class=\"pinterest css-on9hn5 e1c1bym14\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/social\/pinterest.e8cf655.svg?primary=%2523ffffff\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"auto\" width=\"auto\" alt=\"pinterest\" class=\"css-4lml0h e1mlxuuw1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"13\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">&#8220;It\u2019s a very interesting world,&#8221; Law\u2014who, alongside Bateman and creators Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, executive produced Black Rabbit\u2014told Tudum. &#8220;At the heart, I hope [audiences] are hooked by the complicated, loving, volatile relationship of these two brothers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Bateman, who directed the first two episodes, added:  &#8220;It\u2019s really about these brothers who love each other but don\u2019t match\u2014one\u2019s a screw-up, and the other is much more buttoned up. Everybody can relate to that. Everybody\u2019s either got a sibling, or a friendship where you love being with one another, but it\u2019s kind of dangerous; where that person usually gets you in trouble, but they\u2019re really exciting to be around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black Rabbit cast<img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"jason bateman in black rabbit\" title=\"Jason Bateman in Black Rabbit\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/black-rabbit-68a705999665f.png\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-theme-key=\"base-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/tv\/a65861464\/black-rabbit-netflix-release-date\/&amp;description=- Cosmopolitan.com&amp;media=https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/black-rabbit-68a705999665f.png?resize=1600:*\" class=\"pinterest css-on9hn5 e1c1bym14\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/social\/pinterest.e8cf655.svg?primary=%2523ffffff\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"auto\" width=\"auto\" alt=\"pinterest\" class=\"css-4lml0h e1mlxuuw1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<ul data-node-id=\"17\" class=\"css-1wk73g0 emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"17.0\">Jude Law as Jake Friedken<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.1\">Jason Bateman as Vince Friedken<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.2\">Cleopatra Coleman as Estelle<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.3\">Amaka Okafor as Roxie<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.4\">Sope Dirisu as Wes<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.5\">Dagmara Domi\u0144czyk as Val<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.6\">Chris Coy as Babbit<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.7\">Troy Kotsur as Joe Mancuso<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.8\">Abbey Lee as Anna<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.9\">Odessa Young as Gen<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.10\">Robin de Jes\u00fas as Tony<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.11\">Amir Malaklou as Naveen<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.12\">Don Harvey as Matt<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.13\">Forrest Weber as Junior<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.14\">Francis Benhamou as Lisa Klein<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.15\">Gus Birney as Mel Whitney<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.16\">John Ales as Jules Zablonski<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.17\">Steve Witting as Andy<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"17.18\">Morgan Spector as Campbell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"css-i9p093 emevuu60\">Black Rabbit starts on Netflix on September 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Bateman and Jude Law will play estranged brothers in Black Rabbit, Netflix&#8217;s new limited series that dives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[3579,13118,343,18,117,19,17,590,327,13056],"class_list":{"0":"post-14150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news-explainer","9":"tag-contentid-3f09424f-9841-4806-9966-65ea6acf6da2","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-locale-us","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-shorttitle-black-rabbit-is-the-netflixs-new-twister-thriller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}