Netflix’s latest documentary, “Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly,” arrives globally on September 1, streaming exclusively on Netflix. The film revisits Australian breakdancer Rachael “Raygun” Gunn's viral 2024 Paris Olympics routine, her zero-point battles, and the online mockery that followed, offering a deeper look at memes, misinformation, and the personal toll of becoming a global punchline.
Netflix is finally letting breakdancer Rachael "Raygun" Gunn tell her own version of one of the internet's biggest moments. Netflix has confirmed that "Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly" premieres globally on September 1, arriving as the latest installment in its long-running "Untold" sports documentary anthology from acclaimed filmmakers Chapman Way and Maclain Way.
"Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly" streams exclusively on Netflix. The film slots into Netflix's existing "Untold" library, a franchise that has previously tackled subjects like the Fyre Festival collapse and the Malice at the Palace brawl. It's part of a broader new batch of "Untold" releases that began rolling out on August 25, grouping Raygun's story alongside films on college football legend Vince Young and wrestling icon Mr. T.
The documentary revisits the fallout from Gunn's performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where she failed to score a single point across three breaking battles and quickly became the target of widespread online mockery. It also examines the intense scrutiny she faced as a working academic in the weeks that followed. Gunn competed at the Paris Games on August 9 at Place de la Concorde, facing off against rivals from the United States, France, and Lithuania.
The newly released trailer shows Gunn reflecting candidly on the experience, including a conversation with her therapist beforehand about the worst-case outcome , becoming a global laughing stock. Netflix has described the film as a deep dive into the memes, misinformation, and conspiracy theories that surrounded her viral Olympic debut.
This isn't the first attempt to dramatize Gunn's story. A planned stage production, "Raygun: The Musical," was canceled in late 2024 after Gunn's legal team objected to the use of her name and her signature kangaroo-hop move. Gunn has since stepped back from academic life altogether, leaving her position at Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts in February amid wider cuts to the university's arts department.
For anyone who followed the Raygun phenomenon as it unfolded in real time, "Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly" promises an inside look at how a single Olympic routine spiraled into one of the decade's most-talked-about pop culture moments.