Overview
- Deadline reported Monday that Tom Hooper will direct Netflix’s feature adaptation of Nineteen Steps, based on Millie Bobby Brown’s bestselling WWII novel.
- Anthony McCarten, a four-time Oscar nominee, is set to write the script, and the film remains in development with no release date.
- Brown is producing with Jake Bongiovi and Bobby Brown for PCMA, with Jonathan Eirich producing for Rideback and Nick Reynolds serving as executive producer.
- The book, co-written by Brown and Kathleen McGurl, follows an 18-year-old in wartime East London and draws on the Bethnal Green Tube disaster, one of the UK’s deadliest civilian tragedies of WWII.
- The move follows reports Brown exited Netflix’s gymnastics biopic Perfect over creative differences and marks Hooper’s first feature attachment since Cats in 2019.