A big step with ‘Black Rabbit’

Netflix limited TV series is a breakthrough for Jude Law, producing partner Ben Jackson and their company, Riff Raff Entertainment

- Ryan Faughnder

BEN JACKSON, left, and Jude Law of Riff Raff Entertainment talk about their firm and its latest project.

Jude Lawand his producing partner Ben Jackson have been on plenty of film sets, absorbing lessons from masters including Anthony Minghella (“Cold Mountain”) and Steven Soderbergh (‘‘Side Effects”).

But for Law, Jackson and their production company, Riff Raff Entertainment, their new Netflix limited series “Black Rabbit,” debuting Sept. 18, marksabigstep: It’s their first episodic TV effort produced from inception.

Created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, the eight-episode series stars Law as the ambitious owner of a New York hot spot whose life is thrown into turmoil when his troubled brother, played by Jason Bateman, comes back into the business. It’s a sort of grim and gritty Cain-and-Abel story for the restaurant scene, complete with debt-collecting goons, severed digits and armed robbery.

“It was aslice of New York life that we felt we both knew,” Law said by video from London. “What I loved was the fraternal heartbeat in its center and the question it raised: How far does one go for someone you love?”

Founded in 2017, Riff Raff locked in millions of dollars in financing from venture firm Calculus Capital about three years ago to expand its development slate and hire additional executives.

Law isn’t going to lie. It canbe easier for him to sella movie or TV series he has in development when he’s planning to star init.

But simply making vehicles for the “Talented Mr. Ripley” actor isn’t all he and Jackson have in mind for Riff Raff. Of the dozens of projects the firm has in development, only a handful have the actor attached. Upcoming efforts include a Sharon Horgan-scripted romantic drama film, a_ historical drama from Justin Kuritzkes and a major TV drama by writer Jonathan Glatzer.