EXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown may have just exited Perfect, the Netflix pic on Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, over creative differences, as we first reported. But progress on her film slate continues, as Deadline has learned that she’s enlisted Academy Award winner Tom Hooper to direct the feature adaptation of her New York Times bestselling novel Nineteen Steps for Netflix.
As previously announced, Anthony McCarten, the four-time Oscar nominee behind films like Bohemian Rhapsody and The Theory of Everything, is set to adapt the screenplay for the film, which remains in development. Millie Bobby Brown, Jake Bongiovi and Bobby Brown are producing for PCMA alongside Jonathan Eirich for Rideback, with an eye for Brown to star. Nick Reynolds will exec produce for Rideback.
A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller published by William Morrow in September 2023, Nineteen Steps is a WWII novel drawing on the experiences of
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