Millie Bobby Brown’s new Netflix rom-com sends two exes racing to a wedding they already paid for
Millie Bobby Brown is lining up a rom-com she’ll also produce — and her leading man hails from the hit FX series 'Adults.'
If there’s anyone who practically embodies Netflix these days, it’s Millie Bobby Brown. Since smashing onto the scene with Stranger Things (remember when that was new?), she’s been at the forefront of Netflix’s attempts to make just about every genre work. She’s done monsters, mystery, sword fights—now, she’s heading back to romantic comedy territory, and she’s dragging a rising TV star along for the ride.
What’s this one about, then?
The new film is called Non-Refundable, and if you think that sounds like a Netflix original rom-com, you’re absolutely right. Brown’s not just starring—she’s producing the thing as well, because of course she is. Her co-star is Jack Innanen, who you might know from FX’s Adults (the one that had everyone making jokes about twenty-somethings behaving badly).
This is a so-called 'high-concept' romantic comedy, meaning it needs at least one daft set-up to justify itself. The plot: Brown plays Dani; Innanen is Nate. They’re exes who don’t even like each other anymore, but they’ve already paid for a wedding venue together (as you do), so they both barrel off to Mexico, each desperate to outdo the other by showing up with flashier new dates. Yes, it’s petty. Netflix apparently loves it anyway—word inside is the execs were so taken with David Bernstein’s script that they ended up 'quoting its one-liners and referencing its set pieces around the office.'
Netflix bought Non-Refundable after staff reportedly started quoting its standout jokes at each other during meetings.
The idea, apparently, is to help revitalise the rom-com as Netflix’s next big comeback narrative. Whether audiences are feeling as nostalgic for awkward wedding shenanigans as they are for Stranger Things-era Brown remains to be seen.
Who’s actually making this?
Directing duties go to Paul Briganti, whose early career was crammed with sketches for Funny or Die and CollegeHumor before landing his way onto the Saturday Night Live team. He stuck with SNL from 2016 until 2021, so if you remember any decent sketches from those years, there’s a fair chance he was involved. Briganti only just made his feature debut with Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, which crept out onto Peacock in late 2023. Critics were not entirely on board—42% on Rotten Tomatoes, if you’re keeping score—but Netflix must think he’s got the right touch for this next job.
The new face opposite Brown
- Jack Innanen cut his teeth on TikTok before landing the lead as Paul Baker in FX’s Adults—and the numbers for the show are oddly impressive. The second series pulled in 40% more viewers than the first, and it’s holding strong with an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Innanen’s also cropped up in Purgatory, a comedy-drama that premiered at TIFF in September 2026.
As for Brown, she’s in the middle of putting her stamp on just about everything at Netflix, whether it’s fighting dragons in Damsel, solving mysteries in the Enola Holmes trilogy (the third film dropped 1 July 2026), or about to show up with Gabrielle LaBelle in the upcoming Just Picture It.
Enola Holmes 3 hit Netflix on 1 July 2026, cementing Millie Bobby Brown’s dominance over the streamer’s marquee franchises.
Netflix still hasn’t set a release window for Non-Refundable, but given they’re batting around possible awards hopefuls like La Bola Negra or blockbuster fantasies like Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, these comedies are more likely to slip straight onto streaming rather than getting a proper cinema push. Still, Netflix has turned romantic-comedy gambles into real hits this year with People We Meet on Vacation and Voicemails for Isabelle, so there’s clearly still an appetite for a breezy bit of escapism—especially if you can stick Millie Bobby Brown in a sun-drenched wedding dress somewhere in Mexico.