EXCLUSIVE: The Netflix sports drama Perfect will no longer be moving forward at the streamer after star Millie Bobby Brown exited the project. Sources say Brown’s departure had to do with creative differences with producers. Brown was set to play Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug in the pic that was set to go into production this summer but will now be scrapped following her departure.
Netflix and Brown’s reps had no comment on her exit.
Deadline first reported last fall that Brown was set to star as the iconic Olympian with Gia Coppola directing and Ronnie Sandahl. The film was set to follow Brown as Strugg, A member of the 1996 USA gymnastics team dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” Strug played a huge role in clinching the gold after performing the vault on a badly injured ankle. The image of her landing it perfectly and then having that ankle give out, only to have her coach carry her off the mat, is considered one of the more memorable moments in Olympic history. Sources say the plan is to shoot the movie next spring.
Netflix is very much still in the Millie business and looking forward to Enola Holmes 3 which is set to bow some time this year. They also have a number of films in development at the studio with Brown attached to star that include Just Picture It, and Nineteen Steps (which is adapted from Brown’s debut novel).
Netflix and Brown are also coming off the record breaking final season of Stranger Things, which had its series finale in December.
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