Black Rabbit: Jude Law and Jason Bateman star in Netflix crime series

Netflix is bringing Jude Law and Jason Bateman together for Black Rabbit, an eight-episode limited series that dives into the high-stakes world of New York City’s nightlife. The show centers on two brothers who run the hotel-restaurant-VIP enclave Black Rabbit and must navigate a mounting debt, violent threats, and the long shadows of family loyalty as their business—and their lives—teeter on the edge. Black Rabbit will premiere on Netflix on September 18, after opening the show’s world, in part, at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Primetime program.

Jake Friedken, played by Law, runs Black Rabbit as a charismatic frontman whose control is increasingly tested as his brother Vince, portrayed by Bateman, returns with a debt that has spiraled over years. The pressure mounts when an intimidating debt holder, portrayed by Troy Kotsur, enters the picture, threatening both the business and the brothers’ bond. The official logline frames the series as a propulsive thriller and a character study about how an unbreakable brotherly bond can shatter a family’s world and its orbit. In the trailer and early materials, the tone blends neon-lit nightlife with dangerous...