Netflix’s Olympic gymnastics drama “Perfect” is no longer moving ahead at the streamer after Millie Bobby Brown exited the project due to creative differences, two sources with knowledge of the project have confirmed.
Brown was set to star as Kerri Strug, a member of the 1996 “Magnificent Seven” USA gymnastics team with Gia Coppola directing and Ronnie Sandahl as screenwriter.
The project was announced last September. Brown had been set to produce under her PMCA shingle, which Nik Bower of Riverstone Pictures and Thomas Benski for Magna Studios as lead producers.
At 18 years old, Strug helped her team win the gold medal after she performing the vault on an injured ankle. After she landed perfectly and her ankle gave out, her coach had so carry her off the mat, which became a landmark moment in Olympic history. Her team insisted she join them for the gold medal ceremony, and again her coach helped carry her to the podium. She became a heroic figure with appearances on talk shows, a “Saturday Night Live” parody and her photo on the Wheaties box. After her gymnastics career, Strug went on to work as an elementary school teacher and in several positions in the White House and Justice Department.
Brown just completed five seasons of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” which she started at 12 years old, and has “Enola Holmes 3” premiering on Netflix this summer. She has also wrapped production on the streamer’s upcoming rom-com “Just Picture It,” in which she stars and also produces, co-starring Gabrielle LaBelle.
Spokespeople for Netflix and Brown declined to comment.