{"id":388981,"date":"2026-04-20T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:34:08","slug":"millie-bobby-browns-nineteen-steps-sets-tom-hooper-as-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388981\/","title":{"rendered":"Millie Bobby Brown’s ‘Nineteen Steps’ Sets Tom Hooper As Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown may have just exited Perfect<\/a>, the Netflix<\/a> pic on Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, over creative differences, as we first reported. But progress on her film slate continues, as Deadline has learned that she\u2019s enlisted Academy Award winner Tom Hooper<\/a> to direct the feature adaptation of her New York Times bestselling novel Nineteen Steps<\/a> for Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously announced, Anthony McCarten, the four-time Oscar nominee behind films like Bohemian Rhapsody and The Theory of Everything, is set to adapt the screenplay for the film, which remains in development. Millie Bobby Brown, Jake Bongiovi and Bobby Brown are producing for PCMA alongside Jonathan Eirich for Rideback, with an eye for Brown to star. Nick Reynolds will exec produce for Rideback.<\/p>\n

\n\tA New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller published by William Morrow in September 2023, Nineteen Steps is a WWII novel drawing on the experiences of Brown\u2019s grandmother. 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tHooper won the Oscar for Best Director for The King\u2019s Speech and is otherwise best known for helming the Oscar-winning films Les Mis\u00e9rables and and The Danish Girl. Most recently, he attached to direct Photograph 51<\/a>, an adaptation of the Anna Ziegler play of the same name that will star Natalie Portman as Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking British scientist who first unveiled the hidden structure of DNA. That project was announced during last year\u2019s Cannes Market. Also known for work on series like His Dark Materials and John Adams, Hooper is repped by CAA, Independent Talent in UK, and Warren Dern.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Brown, other upcoming projects include the Netflix films Enola Holmes 3 and Just Picture It \u2014 the latter being a college rom-com from director Lee Toland Krieger.<\/p>\n

\n\tComing off Disney\u2019s Lilo & Stitch, which earned more than $1 billion in global box office last year, Rideback is also behind Netflix\u2019s Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will air its second season later this year, as well as the streamer\u2019s upcoming dance comedy feature Best of the Best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown may have just exited Perfect, the Netflix pic on Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,1094,111,139,201390,69,201391],"class_list":{"0":"post-388981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-netflix","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nineteen-steps","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-tom-hooper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}