Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour to Play Father-Daughter Duo for New Netflix Spy Drama Series

Netflix has announced Stranger Things alumni Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour volition instrumentality to play a father-daughter duo successful a caller spy play bid from Adolescence creator Jack Thorne.

The streamer announced the quality today, confirming the 2 actors who played Hawkins' Eleven and Jim Hopper volition reunite pursuing a straight-to-series order. It comes from A24, with Thorne attached arsenic writer and enforcement producer.

Netflix published a synopsis for the show, which presently has nary title: "In the series, disgraced FBI cause turned information adept Matt Wolfe (Harbour) is drawn backmost into the satellite helium near down erstwhile his estranged daughter, Rebecca (Brown) — present an FBI cause determined to travel successful his footsteps — vanishes connected a mission, forcing him to instrumentality to a tract that has evolved beyond him."

Milly Bobby Brown (L) and David Harbour (R). Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic.

Despite moving guardant without an authoritative title, Netflix has already nabbed a fewer different names for its unit down the camera. Included successful the database are Brown's husband, Jake Bongiovi, and her father, Robert Brown, arsenic producers via their family's PCMA Productions.

Joe Hipps and Patrick McDonald are besides attached arsenic producers for Cut To, with KC Wenson besides successful the premix for Bravo Axolotl. Brown and Harbour volition besides service arsenic enforcement producers.

"We are delighted to bring this spy play to beingness with an bonzer radical of endowment we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with before," Netflix caput of scripted series, US and Canada, Jinny Howe said successful a statement. "Jack Thorne’s quality to find the profoundly quality communicative wrong a thriller is unmatched, and watching Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour reunite — this clip arsenic estranged begetter and girl connected other sides of a situation — is thing audiences are going to love. A24 is the cleanable spouse to bring this communicative to our members astir the world."

Brown and Harbour person made headlines successful the past twelvemonth for a fewer reasons. The two, of course, played retired their (adoptive) father-daughter narration arsenic their Stranger Things characters earlier the Netflix sci-fi amusement yet came to an extremity with Season 5 connected New Year's Eve successful December 2025. It was an lawsuit that saw audiences turning retired to theaters to spot however creators the Duffer Brothers would effort to necktie a bow connected stories for Eleven, Hopper, and the remainder of the Upside Down crew.

The lead-up to that large finish, however, was marred by real-world contention surrounding Brown and Harbour. The play began aft The Daily Mail published a November 2025 study saying Brown had filed a harassment and bullying assertion against Harbour earlier accumulation connected Season 5 started. Just days aft the archetypal study emerged, the 2 were seen unneurotic astatine the Stranger Things finale premiere, with nary motion of atrocious humor to beryllium found. At the time, manager and enforcement shaper Shawn Levy dismissed the claims.

"I've work a clump of stories and they scope from wildly inaccurate to... there's truthful overmuch sound astir it," helium told The Hollywood Reporter. "But the information is that we presumption this unit and this formed arsenic family, and truthful we dainty each different with respect, and that's ever been bedrock."

Brown aboriginal went connected to indirectly combat rumors. In precocious November, she told The Hollywood Reporter that she and Harbour "value our relationship much than anything," adding that it was "really exciting" to "come backmost together" with Harbour for the Stranger Things finale.

Brown and Harbour volition beryllium backmost to capable akin roles erstwhile the untitled Netflix spy play yet materializes. In the meantime, you tin work astir what IGN thought of the Stranger Things finale occurrence with our 9/10 spoiler review.

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