The film adaptation of Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel, Nineteen Steps, brings on Tom Hopper (The King’s Speech) to direct for Netflix. This will mark Hopper’s return to feature filmmaking for the first time in seven years since Cats (2019), which stalled a run of prestige dramas for the director. The historical fiction novel is inspired by Brown’s grandmother’s own experience in war-torn London while navigating a new romance with an American airman. Nineteen Steps is in the earliest stages of development.
Described as Die Hard meets The Raid, Fifth Season has won the rights to High Rise, a thriller based on the bestselling book from Gabriel Bergmoser. The author will pen the adaptation that follows an ex-cop forced to fight his way through a crime-ridden city alongside his estranged daughter, who wants nothing to do with him. Patrick Hughes is attached to direct, reuniting with War Machine’s Hidden Pictures as the project heads into development.