Teaser Trailer & First Look At Netflix Action Thriller Series ‘Hit And Run’
Netflix has released a teaser trailer and first look images to its upcoming action series Hit and Run, starring Fauda’s Lior Raz, who is also its co-creator and executive producer. He is joined in the cast by The Affair’s Sanaa Lathan as the female lead, as well as fellow series regulars Kaelen Ohm (Queen of Spades), Moran Rosenblatt (Fauda), and Gregg Henry (Scandal), while Gal Toren (Para Aduma) guest stars. The series will premiere in August 2021.
Hit and Run centers on a happily married man, played by Fauda star Raz, whose life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit and run accident in Tel Aviv. Grief-stricken and confused, the former Special Forces soldier searches for his wife’s killers, who have fled to the U.S. With the help of an ex-lover, Naomi Hicks (Lathan), he uncovers disturbing truths about his beloved wife and the secrets she kept from him.
The show was created and written by Raz and Avi Issacharoff, the co-creators and exec producers of Netflix series Fauda, and Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, creators of the Amazon comedy Z: The Beginning of Everything. Mike Barker (The Handmaid’s Tale) directs five episodes, including the pilot.
Cast and Character information:
LIOR RAZ (Fauda and 6 Underground) as Segev Azulai - A former special forces soldier who has since retired for a quieter life but forced to confront his violent past when his wife is killed in a mysterious hit and run accident.
SANAA LATHAN (The Affair) as Naomi Hicks - A talented and ambitious New York journalist who is contacted by an old-flame looking for help investigating a murder with newsworthy global implications.
KAELEN OHM (Queen of Spades) as Danielle Wexler - A gifted American dancer living a happy life in Tel Aviv with new husband (Lior Raz) when her life is suddenly cut short. In her death, a host of secrets and lies are revealed about her life in Israel.
MORAN ROSENBLATT (Fauda) as Tali Shapira - A hard nosed police detective who uses her position to help her cousin, Segev, solve the mystery of his wife's death.
GAL TOREN (Para Aduma) as Ron Harel - A former Israeli special forces op who lives in New York and buries his PTSD in bad choices. His old army friend, Segev (Lior Raz), arrives looking to settle a score forcing Ron out of his cocoon and back into action.
GREGG HENRY (Scandal) as Martin Wexler - Danielle’s father, who is unhappy with her daughter’s choice in husbands for dangerous reasons of his own.
LIOR ASHKENAZI (Footnote) is Assaf Talmor, a man with a mysterious connection to Danielle, who seems to know more than he’s letting on about her death.
