Stranger Issues star Millie Bobby Brown and Gabriel LaBelle, who broke out with Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, will star in Simply Image It, a romantic comedy arrange at Netflix.
Lee Toland Krieger, recognized for helming the drama The Age of Adaline and episodes of Netflix’s hit You, will direct the characteristic.
Written by Jesse Lasky, the script facilities on two care-free faculty college students (Brown, LaBelle) who’re stunned when their telephones glitch and begin exhibiting them photos from 10 years sooner or later that includes them as a fortunately married couple with children. The actual glitch? They’ve but to fulfill one another.
Veterans Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum are producing Simply Image It. Brown and Robert Brown are additionally producing, by way of their PCMA Productions. The undertaking is Brown’s first romantic comedy and she or he has shepherded the undertaking from inception.
Govt producing are Alyssa Altman of R/Okay Movies, Jake Bongiovi and Isobel Roberts for PCMA Productions, and David Kern.
That is the primary characteristic sale for Lasky, who hails from the TV world. He started his profession in New York comedy as a monologue joke author for The Late Present with David Letterman and later acted as an affiliate producer on your entire run of the ABC’s collection Revenge. On high of writing freelance episodes, he wrote and produced all DVD bonus options for the present, and was additionally employed to write down the Revenge spin-off novel that was printed by Hyperion. He was additionally a workers author on the medical drama Code Black and has bought pilots throughout city.
LaBelle famously starred as a younger Steven Spielberg within the director’s Oscar-nominated semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans. Final 12 months, he was the middle of Saturday Night time, portraying Lorne Michaels in Jason Reitman’s story of the making of Saturday Night time Dwell’s first episode.
Brown is a Netflix characteristic favourite because of her enduring function as Eleven within the firm’s Stranger Issues collection, which has its fifth and closing season arriving in two elements in November. Earlier this 12 months, she starred within the big-budget sci-fi journey film The Electrical State reverse Chris Pratt, and final 12 months toplined the dragon fantasy Damsel, each for Netlix. Damsel, which she additionally produced, is quantity 9 on the streamer’s hottest movies record (English). She not too long ago wrapped Enola Holmes 3, during which she stars and likewise govt produced for PCMA.
Brown is repped by WME and Hansen, Jacobson. LaBelle is repped by CAA, Play Administration, and Sloane Provide. Lasky is repped by Echo Lake Leisure and Goodman Genow.
