Netflix has cancelled the upcoming real-life drama starring Millie Bobby Brown, following the Stranger Things star’s reported exit from the project.
Titled Perfect, Brown was on board to star as real-life Olympic gymnastics champion Kerri Strug, with The Last Showgirl’s Gia Coppola on board to direct.
According to Deadline, Brown has seemingly exited the film, with reports suggesting it will no longer move forward now that its main star has left.
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Per the report, Brown’s departure was due to creative differences she had with the film’s producers, though no further details were given.
The film, which was set to begin production this summer, was initially set to be directed by Coppola, with Ronnie Sandahl penning the script.
Coppola also exited the project earlier this year, with Cate Shortland taking over as director on the biopic.
Set in 1996, the film was to follow Brown as Strug as she competed in the Olympics as part of a team dubbed the ‘Magnificent Seven’ by the media.
After famously landing her final vault after performing with an injured ankle, Strug was carried off by her coach and awarded a gold medal in one of the most memorable moments in Olympic history.
Meanwhile, Brown is currently gearing up to star in Netflix’s Enola Holmes 3. The threequel will see Brown reprise the role of the titular detective as her “personal and professional dreams collide in a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before”.
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Speaking recently about the upcoming film, writer Jack Thorne told Radio Times: “I had some unfinished business with Enola Holmes, that I wanted to do in a totally different way, that told a different side of British society.
“I always thought of Enola Holmes as a sort of cheat, as a way of understanding 19th-century British society.
“The first film was about land reform and vote reform, the second film was about the birth of the unions, and the third film looks at our colonial history. And just trying to capture those different elements I find really exciting.”
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