Black Rabbit: release date, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know

Black Rabbit stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law
Black Rabbit stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law during filming in New York (Image credit: Netflix)

Black Rabbit is a major new Netflix limited series starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law.

The pair, also executive producers, play battling brothers in the drama set in New York.

Laura Linney is among the directors on the show, reuniting her with Jason Bateman as the pair played Wendy and Marty Byrde in the Netflix hit Ozark over four series.

It sounds like a promising series, and we hope it might make our best Netflix shows guide.

Here's everything we know…

Black Rabbit release date

Black Rabbit is released on Netflix globally on Thursday, September 18, 2025.

Black Rabbit plot

Black Rabbit stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law filming in New York

Jason Bateman and Jude Law play brothers (Image credit: Getty Images)

Jude Law plays Jake Friedken, the charismatic owner of the Big Apple's coolest restaurant and VIP lounge, Black Rabbit. But when his wayward brother Vince (Jason Bateman) unexpectedly returns to the business he helped set up, old traumas and new dangers threaten to destroy everything they've built.

"It's about two brothers who love each other but don't match — one's a screw-up, the other is much more buttoned-up, or is better at hiding his dysfunction," says Ozark star Bateman.

"When Jude and I were first talking about our roles, there wasn't a decision yet about who was going to play which part. I usually play the character who doesn't make bad decisions, so I thought it would be interesting if I did something different this time. Vince makes a bunch of mistakes and is risky to have around, but he's well meaning. You have empathy for a guy who is trying to make the right decision, but who just can't get out of his own way."

On the run from gangsters to whom he owes thousands of dollars, a desperate Vince visits Jake, the person he's always relied on to bail him out. But with Black Rabbit to manage, a new business venture in the pipeline, plus child maintenance and school fees to pay for his young son, Jake is hiding his own struggle. Will he be forced to risk it all?

Black Rabbit cast

The key cast are Jason Bateman (Ozark, Air), Jude Law (Talented Mr. Ripley, Sherlock Holmes), Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies, The Responder), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London, Slow Horses), and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession, The Lost Daughter).

Jason Bateman is also directing the first two episodes. Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù plays the Black Rabbit's co-owner Wes, with Amaka Okafor as the nightspot's star chef Roxie and Cleopatra Coleman as celebrated interior designer Estelle.

Is there a trailer?

Yep, here you go...

BLACK RABBIT | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube BLACK RABBIT | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube
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