After the debut of her first novel last year, Millie Bobby Brown’s Nineteen Steps will be adapted into a feature film for Netflix with Brown producing and possibly starring in the film, per Deadline.
Nineteen Steps is set in World War II and draws on Brown’s own family history by focusing on the harrowing experience her grandmother went through.
>Written by Brown and Kathleen McGurl, the story follows “Nellie Morris, an 18-year-old girl living in the East London neighborhood of Bethnal Green. Over the course of the book, Nellie navigates the challenges of wartime life, including the threat of bombings, rationing, and the emotional turmoil of being separated from loved ones, while charting a new romance with American airman Ray. At the historical core of the novel is the Bethnal Green Tube disaster, one of the worst civilian disasters in the UK during the war, where 173 people were killed in a crush as they sought shelter during an air raid.”
Nineteen Steps will be adapted by screenwriter Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything) with Rideback’s Jonathan Eirich producing and Nick Reynolds executive producing. A director has not yet been chosen.
Netflix makes sense for Brown to call her novel’s adaptation home as she made her breakout performance in the streamer’s hit horror sci-fi Stranger Things as Eleven, a girl with powerful telepathic abilities. She is reprising her iconic role for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, which is currently in production for a 2025 premiere, and has also led Netflix’s Enola Holmes films as well as this year’s survival fantasy thriller Damsel.
Brown will also star in The Electric State for Netflix, starring alongside Chris Pratt where they will be directed by Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame‘s Russo Brothers.
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