Millie Bobby Brown To Play Olympian Kerri Strug In Biopic ‘Good

EXCLUSIVE: Along with her time enjoying Eleven on the hit sequence Stranger Issues coming to an finish later this yr, Millie Bobby Brown appears to be like to have already discovered that subsequent nice character to play as sources inform Deadline the Emmy-nominee is in last negotiations to star as Olympian Kerri Strug within the pic Good. Gia Coppola is on board to direct and whereas a deal isn’t closed, sources say Netflix is in negotiations to land the bundle.

Ronnie Sandahl is writing with Brown producing beneath her PMCA banner. Lead producers are Nik Bower for Riverstone Photos and Thomas Benski for Magna Studios.

With the Strug story, Brown will get the chance to deal with not solely one of many nice Olympic tales of all time, however one of many nice sport tales of its period. A member of the 1996 American gymnastics group dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” Strug performed an enormous function in clinching the gold after performing the vault on a badly injured ankle. The picture of her touchdown it completely after which having that ankle give out solely to have her coach carry her off the mat continues to be thought-about one of many extra memorable moments in Olympic historical past. Sources say the plan is to shoot the film subsequent spring.

Ever since her breakout function within the first season of Stranger Issues, Brown has carried out a very good job of selecting her non-Stranger Issues initiatives together with her very profitable Enola Holmes franchise with the third movie anticipated to bow someday quickly. With this venture, she will get her first massive likelihood to sink her enamel into one thing that might play for the awards crowd just like when Margot Robbie performed Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.

Subsequent up for Brown is the ultimate season of Stranger Issues, which Netflix launch over three volumes with the primary set of episodes bowing over Thanksgiving weekend and the ultimate episode bowing on New Years Eve. She additionally has Enola Holmes 3 and is about to begin filming the Netflix pic Simply Image It reverse Gabriel LaBelle.

Coppola function directorial debut Palo Alto premiered at Telluride, Venice and Toronto Movie Festivals earlier than its 2014 Tribeca Movie launch. She directed and co-wrote, Mainstream, which premiered worldwide on the 2020 Venice Movie Competition and performed on the Telluride & Toronto Movie Festivals. Her newest movie, The Final Showgirl, stars Pamela Anderson, Jamie Lee Curits, and Dave Bautista, and garnered Anderson a Golden Globe nomination for Greatest Actress in a Drama Movement Image.  

Brown is repped by WME and PCMA Administration and Productions and Coppola is repped by CAA and Untitled Leisure