Love him or hate him, Harlan Coben has helped create some of the most entertaining thrillers ever made.
And one group that clearly loves Coben is the bosses in it Netflix. As of 2018, they have released a 13 incredible adaptations of the author’s hit novels.
And the streaming service doesn’t seem to be slowing down just yet.
On June 18, they released an adaptation of his 2023 novel I’ll Find You.
The show follows David Burroughs (Sam Worthington), a man who languishes in prison after being falsely accused of murdering his son.
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However, when new evidence emerges that suggests his son may still be alive, David breaks out to uncover the truth. Will he find the lost boy? Well, you’ll have to watch to find out.
And one person he thinks you should really watch and find out is actor Tom Morton.
“I think it’s right up there with the best of his work,” Morton said subway before adding that those who have read the book should also tune in.
“I think it’s worth mentioning, it’s one of his more recent books,” he explained. “It was only published in 2023, but for those of your readers who have read the book, they still don’t know the story.”
Indeed, a big change is what got Morton, 44, his role in the series.
He plays Detective Daniel Müller, a Geneva-based investigator who makes history when he realizes that David’s case is connected to a historic Swiss crime.
Unlike the other characters in the story, however, Müller is not from the book; it was created specifically for the show.
“Daniel Müller is not in the book,” he laughed. “I found out at my expense because when I went into this. I was told I was going to play Daniel Muller.
I thought, “Great, I’ll fly to Canadaand I will read the book on the flight.”
‘So I’m sitting there, reading, and I’m going, “Oh, he’s going to show up… It’s going to be soon… No, he’s not in it.”
However, Morton is convinced that this is one of the show’s strengths. Neither Coben nor showrunner Robert Hull felt bound by the book.
“I think even for people who have read the book, it will be a journey of discovery,” he explained.
“No matter how many times you think you’ve got things figured out, you’ll end up saying, ‘Wait, what, wait what?’
This will double and hit you twice as hard because every single episode twists and turns all the way around. And just when you think you know what happened, you don’t.
And if you think Morton was intimidated by the fact that Müller was a TV invention, you’d be wrong.
“It was really quite liberating,” he began.
“No one expects anything one way or the other, and it was a character that Harlan and Robert Hull, the showrunner, just pulled out of thin air and threw into the mix.”
Of course, it helps that, despite being ‘young’, the character still has that understated Coben charm.
“There’s something about Daniel’s story that I found incredibly relatable,” Morton explained.
But again, that’s one of those things that I think is at the heart of how Harlan writes, and it’s the reason people keep coming back to these adaptations and why they top the Netflix charts.
“He writes characters who are in extraordinary circumstances but are deeply relatable, and that means people project themselves very easily into those universes.”
It also helped that Hull had a vision for Müller.
“I think it’s fair to say that Robert had a pretty clear idea of what he wanted Daniel to be,” the actor said.
“At the same time, he and the directors were very willing to let me put things out there and see what stuck.”
Sadly, one thing that didn’t stick was Morton’s suggestion that Müller should have more hirsute.
“The only thing I didn’t agree with is that I really felt he should have a mustache,” Morton laughed.
But there was a hint that this might have pushed him into Poirot territory. So here we go. We left now.’
I Will Find You is now streaming on Netflix.
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