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Netflix's biggest in-house star Millie Bobby Brown to star in new romcom

By Chris Morgan | Last updated Jul 16, 2025 4:44 PM ET

The "Strangers Thing" casting decision were clearly smart, given what has become of that cast in the ensuing years. However, Netflix quickly glommed onto Millie Bobby Brown, who popped as Eleven on the sci-fi show, as an in-house star. Brown is a true-blue Netflix star, probably the biggest star who essentially just works within the parameters of the streaming giant. It's not just "Stranger Things." Brown has starred in two Enola Holmes movies, with a third on the way, not to mention "Damsel" and "The Electric State."

Brown has another movie in the works now, a romantic comedy this time. Yes, it's a Netflix film.

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The movie is called "Just Picture It," and Brown's co-star is no slouch himself. It's none other than Gabriel LaBelle, the rising star who first popped as young Steven Spielberg in "The Fabelmans." Then, he got the best reviews of anybody in the polarizing movie "Saturday Night," where he played Lorne Michaels.

It turns out this is a high-concept, fantastical take on the romcom. Brown and LaBelle play two college kids who, after their phones glitch, see photos of themselves 10 years in the future where they are married with children. The only issue for them, beyond the fact the very fabric of reality has been shattered before their very eyes, is that they have never met.

Odds are, "Just Picture It" will top out as "fine" and "watchable," but this is a Brown movie on Netflix. It'll be promoted heavily, and it will be watched by a lot of people. The romcom has largely died, but to the extent it lives, it lives on Netflix.

(h/t The Hollywood Reporter)

Chris Morgan

Chris Morgan is a Detroit-based culture writer who has somehow managed to justify getting his BA in Film Studies. He has written about sports and entertainment across various internet platforms for years and is also the author of three books about '90s television.

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