David Harbour and Millie Bobby Brown, who co-starred on “Stranger Issues” collectively for 5 seasons, will as soon as once more share the display. Netflix has introduced a straight-to-series order for the pair to star in and govt produce an untitled Jack Thorne spy thriller from A24. Thorne not solely co-created Emmys juggernaut “Adolescence” and “Lord of the Flies” for Netflix, however he’s written the streamer’s “Enola Holmes” motion pictures, which star Brown.
In line with the logline for the brand new collection, “Disgraced FBI agent turned safety skilled Matt Wolfe is drawn again into the world he left behind when his estranged daughter, Rebecca — now an FBI agent decided to observe in his footsteps — vanishes on a mission, forcing him again right into a area that has advanced past him.”
“We’re delighted to carry this spy drama to life with a unprecedented group of expertise we’ve been lucky to collaborate with earlier than,” wrote Jinny Howe, Netflix’s Head of Scripted Sequence, U.S. and Canada. “Jack Thorne’s capacity to search 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 proper associate to carry this story to our members world wide.”
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Since “Stranger Issues” concluded on Dec. 31, 2025. Harbour and Brown have stored busy. Brown’s “Enola Holmes 3” premieres on July 1, and Harbour starred on HBO’s restricted collection “DTF St. Louis.”
As they’ve promoted these initiatives not too long ago, each Brown and Harbour started teasing this reunion. In Selection‘s June 10 cowl story about Harbour, he stated: “Straight up, Millie and I are engaged on a number of …,” earlier than stopping himself, after which persevering with. “You’ll see extra of me and Millie — 10 years wasn’t sufficient. There’s a particular bond there. I really like her. She loves me.”
And in Brown’s look this week on the 92nd Avenue Y, she stated the longer term undertaking with Harbour is “concrete,” earlier than including, “Father-daughter is the place we reside, however Netflix will at all times be our dwelling.”
“The David Harbour undertaking is earlier than anticipated,” Brown stated later within the dialog with “Joyful Unhappy Confused” host Josh Horowitz. “And it’s David’s thought, so kudos to him.”
Brown and Harbour’s self-described “father-daughter” bond hasn’t been with out friction, however within the cowl story about Harbour, the pair clarified studies that their rift had escalated to disaster standing — a Every day Mail story from the autumn of final 12 months stated that Brown had made a proper HR grievance to Netflix about Harbour earlier than manufacturing on “Stranger Issues 5.”
“In households, it’s OK since you’re simply in a disagreement and then you definitely come again collectively. The issue with a billion-dollar present is that there’s simply tons of of people that wish to get entangled,” Harbour stated. “It was only a easy rupture-and-repair factor that, as soon as we cleared everyone out of the way in which and talked to one another, we’re superb.”
For Brown’s half, she had this to say in an electronic mail to Selection: “Over time, our relationship grew to become way more collaborative creatively. If you work with somebody for that a few years, we might actually push one another emotionally in scenes. Although the collection has ended, there’s nonetheless lots of gratitude.”
On “Stranger Issues,” Harbour performed Jim Hopper, the chief of police of Hawkins, Indiana, who adopted Brown’s Eleven, an omnipotent, lab-generated youngster on the heart of the present. The “Stranger Issues” collection finale ended with Eleven seeming to sacrifice her life with the intention to save the world, and not too long ago, each actors have weighed in on the query of whether or not she is definitely alive. Brown stated she made a pact with the Duffer brothers to not reveal Eleven’s destiny.
However to Harbour, the query is an easy matter, in line with what he informed Selection‘s Daniel D’Addario. “Proper from the very starting of that collection,” he stated, “we love this little lady, however you actually can’t have somewhat lady in Hawkins, Indiana, with supernatural powers operating round. She simply can not exist.”
The brand new Netflix spy collection may even be govt produced by Jake Bongiovi and Robert Brown for PCMA Productions; Joe Hipps and Patrick McDonald for Lower To; KC Wenson for Bravo Axolotl. Brown is represented by WME, 2PM SHARP and Hansen, Jacobson. Harbour is represented by WME and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern and Related. Thorne’s staff is UTA, Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, Sloan Provide, Weber and Dern and ID.
