EXCLUSIVE: After wrapping up Stranger Things and capping off an Enola Holmes trilogy, and with a David Harbour co-starring spy comedy upcoming, Millie Bobby Brown has found her next project with Netflix: a comedy titled Non-Refundable that she’ll produce and headline opposite Jack Innanen, the breakout star of FX’s Adults.
With Emmy-nominated SNL alum Paul Briganti aboard to direct, Non-Refundable is billed as a high-concept commercial comedy centered on Nate (Innanen) and Dani (Brown), an ex-couple who are still on the hook for their wedding venue despite breaking up. This leads them to travel to Mexico out of spite, where they try showing each other up with new dates.
Pic is based on a spec by David Bernstein. Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi will produce for PCMA (Damsel, Enola Holmes), alongside Andrew Swett and Aaron Ryder for Embrace Entertainment (Netflix’s Office Romance) and Will Speck and Josh Gordon for Speck + Gordon Inc. Executive producers are Bobby Brown for PCMA, Eric Fineman and David Kern.
Sources said Non-Refundable reflects Netflix’s interest in revitalizing a version of the rom-com you see less of these days — a film like Forgetting Sarah Marshall that had big laughs and emotional stakes in equal measure. Execs were on the lookout for fresh takes and knew they’d found the one in new writer Bernstein’s spec when the team started quoting its one-liners and referencing its set pieces around the office.
At Netflix, Brown has become synonymous with megahit genre fare like Stranger Things, Damsel and the Enola Holmes films. But execs thought of her after seeing her performance in Just Picture It, an upcoming Netflix rom-com where she stars opposite The Fabelmans’ Gabriel LaBelle, which speaks to underappreciated comedic chops.
Innanen wowed Netflix execs with his turn as Paul Baker in Adults, an FX hang-out sitcom compared to a Gen Z version of Friends or New Girl.
Meanwhile, Briganti was the choice to direct given his work at SNL spanning six seasons, where he demonstrated an eye for surprising, off-the-wall humor, as well as a knack for getting the best out of talent. During his time there as segment director across Digital Shorts and more, select highlights included working on breakout Please Don’t Destroy videos, including “Three Sad Virgins” (feat. Taylor Swift), and directing Brad Pitt to an Emmy nomination via a Covid-era cold open segment where he played Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Wrapping up her five seasons with Stranger Things on New Year’s Eve 2025, Bobby Brown is fresh off Enola Holmes 3, which nabbed over 20M views in its first five days alone. Upcoming, she’s set to reunite with her Stranger Things dad David Harbour on a father-daughter espionage thriller for Netflix from Adolescence‘s Jack Thorne & A24. She is repped by WME and Hansen, Jacobson.
Seen over the summer in the second season of the critically acclaimed Adults — which seemed to have broadened awareness around the series — Innanen has also previously been seen starring opposite Dan Levy in Netflix’s crime comedy Big Mistakes from Levy and Rachel Sennott. The Canadian actor is repped by UTA, Range Media Partners and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Briganti reteamed with Please Don’t Destroy post-SNL on the Peacock comedy Please Don’t Destroy: The Legend of Foggy Mountain. He previously intersected with Innanen as the director of multiple episodes of Adults and began his career making videos for CollegeHumor, where he went on to become site director. He garnered early attention for the Hugo Award-nominated satirical video “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury,” starring Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom, before going on to work on series including The Late Late Show with James Corden, Adam Ruins Everything, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Chad and At Home with Amy Sedaris, to name a few. He is repped by WME, Mosaic and Ginsburg Daniels.
Speck and Gordon, the filmmakers behind Blades of Glory and Office Christmas Party, are repped by 3 Arts and CAA.
