It’s been a hot minute since we’ve had a film from Oscar-winner Tom Hooper, and he’s now been enlisted by Netflix to helm their WWII film “Nineteen Steps,” which stars “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown.
Deadline reports that Hooper is directing from a script by Anthony McCarten, who wrote the successful Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the Stephen Hawking drama “The Theory of Everything.” It will be an adaptation of Brown’s own novel of the same name.
An official synopsis for the book via publisher HarperCollins:
It’s 1942, and air raid sirens continue to wail around London. Eighteen-year-old Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. After a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, she becomes enchanted with the idea of a broader world. Just as she begins to embrace an exciting new life with Ray, a terrible incident occurs during an air raid one evening, tearing her world apart. But when it seems all hope is lost, Nellie finds that, against all odds, love and happiness can triumph.
Hooper’s previous credits include Oscar-winning projects such as “The King’s Speech,” “Les Misérables,” “The Danish Girl,” and his infamous feature adaptation of the stage musical, “Cats.” The former would go on to win Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor for Colin Firth.
The director’s next project, “Photograph 51,” stars Natalie Portman as breakthrough DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin, but doesn’t have an official release date and could get a domestic date toward the end of the year.
This news comes after reports that Brown had exited the Olympic gymnastics drama “Perfect” after “creative differences” with producers and Netflix.
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