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EXCLUSIVE: Emily Bader (People We Meet connected Vacation) and Logan Lerman (Oh, Hi!) are group to prima successful a 13 Going connected 30 reboot coming together astatine Netflix, pinch Jennifer Garner aboard arsenic executive producer.
The task reunites Bader pinch Brett Haley, nan head of her deed Netflix rom-com People We Meet connected Vacation, which spent 4 weeks connected nan Global Top 10 Movies (English) earlier this year, and reached nan Top 10 Movies successful 92 countries. Sources said nan brace were eager to reteam pursuing their occurrence pinch that title and recovered nan 13 Going connected 30 reboot to beryllium nan cleanable opportunity, eyeing Lerman arsenic Bader’s romanticist counterpart from nan jump.
Plot specifications for nan reboot are nether wraps. Haley will nonstop from a book by Hannah Marks (Mark, Mary, & Some Other People; After Everything) pinch revisions by Flora Greeson (The Princess Diaries 3, The High Note).
Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum will nutrient for RK Films pinch Garner exec producing alongside Donna Roth and Susan Arnold, Scott Hemming for Revolution Studios, Alyssa Altman for RK Films, and Marks.
A Columbia Pictures title released successful April 2004, 13 Going connected 30 is simply a imagination rom-com centered connected Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen), a 13-year-old woman who magically wakes up arsenic her 30-year-old aforesaid and must navigate adulthood while rediscovering who she really is.
Garner played nan grown-up type of nan character, starring other Mark Ruffalo successful nan beloved movie from Gary Winick. After grossing astir $96 cardinal successful theaters worldwide and achieving awesome occurrence connected location video, nan movie has endured for decades arsenic a taste touchstone, making a reboot inevitable. Amid improvement connected this film, Garner precocious exec produced a shape philharmonic adaptation, directed by Andy Fickman, which world premiered astatine nan Manchester Opera House past September.
In a connection to Deadline connected nan project, Haley said, “13 Going connected 30 is 1 of those rare, cleanable films. Funny, emotional, profoundly human, pinch unforgettable performances from Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, and Judy Greer. I’m a longtime fan, truthful stepping into this reimagining comes pinch tremendous responsibility.”
The head added, “Jennifer Garner being connected committee arsenic an executive producer, aft playing specified a large portion of what made nan original special, is particularly meaningful. I besides couldn’t beryllium much excited to reunite pinch Emily Bader aft People We Meet connected Vacation. She and nan amazingly talented Logan Lerman are a magical pairing. I consciousness incredibly fortunate to beryllium trusted pinch thing that intends truthful overmuch to truthful galore people.”
A sought-after lead astatine Netflix, pursuing nan capacity of People We Meet connected Vacation, Bader was precocious formed arsenic shot fable Mia Hamm successful their upcoming sports play The 99’ers, based connected Jeré Longman’s book The Girls of Summer: The US Women’s Soccer Team and How It Changed nan World. Previously seen starring successful Prime Video’s My Lady Jane, arsenic good arsenic nan mob play Fresh Kills, other Jennifer Esposito and Odessa A’zion, she is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman
Recent credits for Lerman see Sophie Brooks’ acheronian drama Oh, Hi!, which Sony Pictures Classics snapped up pursuing its Sundance premiere, arsenic good arsenic nan 5th play of nan deed Hulu drama Only Murders successful nan Building. He is repped by UTA and Brillstein.
Haley has established himself arsenic an in-demand romance head for Netflix pursuing his activity connected People We Meet connected Vacation, an adjustment of nan Emily Henry bestseller produced by Temple Hill and Sony 3000, arsenic good arsenic All nan Bright Places starring Elle Fanning, and All Together Now starring Taylor Richardson and Carol Burnett earlier that. He is repped by WME, Untitled, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Recently returning to Apple TV pinch nan 2nd play of her deed enigma thriller The Last Thing He Told Me, connected which she’s an executive producer, Garner astir precocious signed connected to lead nan Netflix drama One Attempt Remaining other John Cena. Upcoming, she besides has The Five-Star Weekend, a miniseries she exec produced and starred successful for Peacock. She is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment, and attorneys Jason Sloane and Harris Hartman of Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Marks is repped by UTA, Untitled, Circle Management + Production, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Greeson by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone, and Yorn Levine.
