'Raygun: Breaking Badly' about breakdancer Rachael Gunn is coming to Netflix

Olympic breakdancer Raygun (Rachael Gunn), whose performance at the 2024 Paris games was awarded zero points, is getting her own Netflix show.

The Netflix series Untold will share details of what happened in Paris during the competition, the fallout, and its impact on the dancer.

“Nobody, least of all Rachael Gunn, expected themselves to become an Olympian,” a synopsis for the documentary says.

“But as Raygun’s performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics went viral overnight, so did the avalanche of memes, misinformation and conspiracy theories questioning how she even got there.”

Netflix produced the hour-long episode alongside Stardust Frames Production and Warner Bros International Television Australia.

Producers of the documentary say it will provide “unprecedented access to Gunn’s personal journey.” 

In late 2024, comedian Steph Broadbridge tried to perform a live show about the controversial dancer. However, she was forced to cancel a planned trial performance of Raygun: The Musical. 

Gunn’s lawyers demanded it not use the name “Raygun” or Gunn’s kangaroo dance move, both of which Gunn’s team claimed as her intellectual property.

 

 

 

 

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Raygun accepts university redundancy

The announcement of the Netflix show comes three months after the Olympian accepted a voluntary redundancy from Sydney’s Macquarie University.

Mediaweek reported that Gunn had been lecturing in media and cultural studies, and took the voluntary redundancy from the university’s Faculty of Arts in February.

In April, she told the Sydney Morning Herald she had seen “the writing on the wall.”

“We need to have a serious conversation about higher education in this country,” Gunn said.

“I’m very worried for my colleagues. I don’t think that things are getting better for them."

Gunn’s redundancy was amidst extensive cuts to the arts department, which resulted in an inquiry, where vice chancellor Bruce Dowton said:

“A number of things were taken into account as we move towards proposing changes … funding model changes, regulatory environment, international student downturn and so on – but also the reality that the demand for courses in the Faculty of Arts has changed."

Raygun: Breaking Badly is expected to be be released by Netflix on September 1.