Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is in talks to bring her WWII novel, Nineteen Steps, to the streamer, according to a new report.
She can sing, she can act, and she can co-write a WWII novel based on the life of her grandmother featuring the Bethnal Green Tube disaster. And now, Grey’s Anatomy season eleven episode fifteen star Millie Bobby Brown looks like she’s adding “co-author of a successful WWII novel adapted into a Netflix film” to her increasingly lengthy CV.
Nineteen Steps, which Brown co-wrote with author Kathleen McGurl, was released in September 2023, and seems to have done rather well. Telling the story of 18-year-old East Londoner Nellie Morris as she navigates rationing, bombings and a romance with an American serviceman, it reached number two on the Sunday Times bestsellers list.
Excellent fodder, then, for a film adaptation. Though Netflix hasn’t confirmed anything either way, Deadline reports that just such an adaptation is in the works, with Brown poised to star and produce under her PCMA banner – which was also behind her previous two Enola Holmes films on the platform. Darkest Hour scribe Anthony McCarten is reportedly penning the script.
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After spending most of her career on the platform following her Stranger Things breakout in 2016, it’s no surprise that Brown seems to be taking her next project to the “tadum” factory. Her The-Revenant-with-a-dragon dark fantasy Damsel topped the streamer’s charts in 79 countries when it debuted earlier this year, and a third Enola Holmes film is set to enter production sometime in 2025.
In the meantime, Brown is set to appear in the Russo Brothers’ rather expensive Netflix film, The Electric State, alongside Chris Pratt in March next year. The sci-fi epic has a reported price tag of up to $320m. That’s more than five times the GDP of Tuvalu, economy fans!
More on Nineteen Steps (and Millie Bobby Brown’s CV) when we get it.
