Kerri Strug Biopic Scrapped After Millie Bobby Brown Leaves Over Creative Differences with Producers
Kerri Strug Biopic Scrapped After Millie Bobby Brown Leaves Over Creative Differences with Producers
Jack SmartFri, April 10, 2026 at 6:46 PM UTC
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Millie Bobby Brown in December 2025; and Kerri Strug in August 1996Credit: Eugene Gologursky/Getty; Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty -
Perfect, a Netflix biopic about gymnast Kerri Strug, has been scrapped, per reports
The film was set to star Millie Bobby Brown, who reportedly exited over creative differences with producers
Brown still has multiple projects with the streaming platform in the works
A biopic centered on Olympian Kerri Strug, with Millie Bobby Brown as the champion gymnast, has been scrapped.
Per Deadline, the Stranger Things star, 22, has exited the Netflix sports drama Perfect. Sources told the outlet that Brown departed the film over creative differences with producers.
PEOPLE reached out to representatives for Brown, Netflix and Strug for comment.
Kerri Strug in New York City on July 3, 2012Credit: Taylor Hill/Getty
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Gia Coppola was initially attached to direct Perfect before Cate Shortland as tapped to helm the project. John P. Lopez and Ronnie Sandahl were reportedly attached as screenwriters.
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Perfect was set to tell the story about "American gymnast Kerri Strug [who] tries to overcome a terrible injury in order to compete for a gold medal in the 1996 Olympics," per IMDb.
Strug, now 48, was part of the U.S. gymnastics team referred to as "the Magnificent Seven." Her iconic performance on the vault despite an injured ankle, which ended with coach Béla Karolyi carrying her off the mat, helped the team clinch gold in the team event.
Millie Bobby Brown in London on Nov. 13, 2025Credit: Kate Green/Getty
Following the buzzy conclusion of Stranger Things in December 2025, Brown will star in more projects for the streamer, leading and producing Enola Holmes 3 (out this summer) and rom-com Just Picture It costarring Gabriel LaBelle.
Per Deadline, Brown is also set to star in the screen adaptation of Nineteen Steps, the British actress' debut novel published in 2023.
In February, Brown celebrated her 22nd birthday alongside family, friends and Jake Bongiovi, her husband since May 2024. The couple welcomed their first child, a daughter, via adoption in the summer of 2025.
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