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EXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown whitethorn person conscionable exited Perfect, nan Netflix pic connected Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, complete imaginative differences, arsenic we first reported. But advancement connected her movie slate continues, arsenic Deadline has learned that she’s enlisted Academy Award victor Tom Hooper to nonstop nan characteristic adjustment of her New York Times bestselling caller Nineteen Steps for Netflix.
As antecedently announced, Anthony McCarten, nan four-time Oscar nominee down films for illustration Bohemian Rhapsody and The Theory of Everything, is group to accommodate nan screenplay for nan film, which remains successful development. Millie Bobby Brown, Jake Bongiovi and Bobby Brown are producing for PCMA alongside Jonathan Eirich for Rideback, pinch an oculus for Brown to star. Nick Reynolds will exec nutrient for Rideback.
A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller published by William Morrow successful September 2023, Nineteen Steps is simply a WWII caller drafting connected nan experiences of Brown’s grandmother. Written by Brown and Kathleen McGurl, nan communicative follows Nellie Morris, an 18-year-old woman surviving successful nan East London vicinity of Bethnal Green. Over nan people of nan book, Nellie navigates nan challenges of wartime life, including nan threat of bombings, rationing, and nan affectional turmoil of being separated from loved ones, while charting a caller romance pinch American airman Ray. At nan humanities halfway of nan caller is nan Bethnal Green Tube disaster, 1 of nan worst civilian disasters successful nan UK during nan war, wherever 173 group were killed successful a crush arsenic they sought shelter during an aerial raid.
Hooper won nan Oscar for Best Director for The King’s Speech and is different champion known for helming nan Oscar-winning films Les Misérables and and The Danish Girl. Most recently, he attached to nonstop Photograph 51, an adjustment of nan Anna Ziegler play of nan aforesaid sanction that will prima Natalie Portman arsenic Rosalind Franklin, nan groundbreaking British intelligence who first unveiled nan hidden building of DNA. That task was announced during past year’s Cannes Market. Also known for activity connected bid for illustration His Dark Materials and John Adams, Hooper is repped by CAA, Independent Talent successful UK, and Warren Dern.
For Brown, different upcoming projects see nan Netflix films Enola Holmes 3 and Just Picture It — nan second being a assemblage rom-com from head Lee Toland Krieger.
Coming disconnected Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, which earned much than $1 cardinal successful world container agency past year, Rideback is besides down Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will aerial its 2nd play later this year, arsenic good arsenic nan streamer’s upcoming creation drama characteristic Best of nan Best.
