Netflix will no longer move forward with Perfect after Millie Bobby Brown exited the sports drama over creative differences with producers. The film had been set to go into production this summer, with Brown playing Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug.
Deadline first reported last fall that Brown was attached to star as Strug, but the project has now been scrapped. Netflix and Brown’s representatives had no comment on her exit.
Perfect was built around one of the most familiar moments in Olympic history: Strug, a member of the 1996 U.S. women’s gymnastics team known as the Magnificent Seven, helping clinch team gold with a vault on a badly injured ankle. Ronnie Sandahl wrote the script, Gia Coppola was originally attached to direct and later left earlier this year, and Cate Shortland stepped in before the film collapsed.
The cancellation leaves Netflix without the film, but not without Brown. The streamer still has Enola Holmes 3 set to arrive sometime this year, and it has Just Picture It and Nineteen Steps in development with Brown attached to star. For now, Perfect is another planned prestige project that never made it to set.
