Stranger Issues‘ signature father-daughter duo is again! Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to a father-daughter espionage thriller starring Stranger Issues‘ Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour from Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, A24 and studio-based producer Joe Hipps.
With the high-profile mission that includes key auspices of two of Netflix’s greatest sequence ever — rating as No.2 (Adolescence) and No.3 and No. 4 (Stranger Issues 4 and 5) on the streamer’s Most In style English Sequence checklist — it was earmarked from the get-go for Netflix which stepped up with a sequence order.
Along with the Emmy-nominated Stranger Issues duo of Brown and Harbour, the untitled sequence, loosely impressed by Paul Warner’s debut novel A Spy Within the Blood, additionally reunites Brown and Thorne, the star and author of Netflix’s Enola Holmes movie franchise, which Brown produces. Its upcoming third installment is being launched July 1.
Within the sequence, disgraced FBI agent turned safety knowledgeable Matt Wolfe (Harbour) is drawn again into the world he left behind when his estranged daughter, Rebecca (Brown) — now an FBI agent decided to observe in his footsteps — vanishes on a mission, forcing him again right into a area that has developed past him.
“We’re delighted to convey this spy drama to life with a unprecedented group of expertise we’ve been lucky to collaborate with earlier than,” Netflix Head of Scripted Sequence, US and Canada, stated. “Jack Thorne’s skill to seek out the deeply human story inside a thriller is unmatched, and watching Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour reunite — this time as estranged father and daughter on reverse sides of a disaster — is one thing audiences are going to like. A24 is the right associate to convey this story to our members around the globe.”
(L to R) David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in ‘Stranger Issues’
Brown teased the mission on the Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast this week, giving Harbour props for re-teaming them.
“Father-daughter is the place we reside, however Netflix will at all times be our house,” she stated. “The David Harbour mission is earlier than anticipated, and it’s David’s thought, so kudos to him.”
Harbour additionally hinted on the collaboration in a current interview with Selection. “You’ll see extra of me and Millie. 10 years wasn’t sufficient,” Harbour stated, referring to the time the Stranger Issues solid spent collectively filming the 5 seasons. “There’s a particular bond there. I really like her, she loves me.”
After some behind-the-scene friction on Stranger Issues, which Harbour and Brown have each acknowledged with out elaborating on particulars, the 2 seem to have patched issues up. Over the previous eight months, they’ve publicly supported one another, they walked the Stranger Issues Season 5 premiere collectively and Harbour attended Brown’s twenty second birthday earlier this 12 months.
Thorne govt produces alongside Joe Hipps and Patrick McDonald of Lower To; Brown, Jake Bongiovi and Robert Brown for PCMA; in addition to Harbour and KC Wenson for Bravo Axolotl.
(L-R) Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour attend Netflix’s “Stranger Issues” Season 5 World Premiere at TCL Chinese language 6 Theatres on November 06, 2025 in Hollywood, California.
A homegrown Netflix expertise who rose to fame together with her function as Eleven on Stranger Issues, Brown has been a Netflix mainstay, starring in a number of motion pictures, together with Damsel, The Electrical State and the Enola Holmes franchise. Additionally developing for Brown is romantic function Simply Image It, which she produces and stars in. She’s repped by WME, 2 PM SHARP and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
Harbour adopted the fifth and remaining season of Stranger Issues, by which he portrayed Eleven’s adoptive father Jim Hopper, with a starring function reverse Jason Bateman and Linda Cardellini on HBO’s restricted sequence DTF St. Louis. His upcoming motion pictures embody Avengers: Doomsday, by which he reprises his Purple Guardian function, Violent Night time 2 and John Rambo. Harbour is repped by WME and Sloane, Provide, Weber and Dern.
Thorne has been in excessive demand following the worldwide success of the Emmy-winning Adolescence, which he co-created and govt produced with Stephen Graham. Netflix not too long ago acquired Thorne’s Lord of the Flies restricted sequence adaptation; he has a Claus Von Bülow restricted sequence pending inexperienced mild at Apple TV, he co-wrote Sam Mendes’ upcoming The Beatles – A 4-Movie Cinematic Occasion and has a few function tasks within the works. Thorne is repped by UTA, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates and Sloane, Provide, Weber and Dern.
For Hipps’s A24-based Lower To, which was launched in late 2024, that is the third massive bundle to land a straight-to-series order, following Discretion, starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, which went to Paramount+, and Set off Level, headlined by Joel Edgerton, which was gained by Netflix.
