Millie Bobby Brown, Gabriel LaBelle to Star in Simply Image It
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 function.
Written by Jesse Lasky, the script facilities on two care-free school college students (Brown, LaBelle) who’re stunned when their telephones glitch and begin displaying them footage 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 mission is Brown’s first romantic comedy and he or she has shepherded the mission from inception.
Government producing are Alyssa Altman of R/Ok Movies, Jake Bongiovi and Isobel Roberts for PCMA Productions, and David Kern.
That is the primary function 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 prime of writing freelance episodes, he wrote and produced all DVD bonus options for the present, and was additionally employed to put in writing the Revenge spin-off novel that was revealed by Hyperion. He was additionally a workers author on the medical drama Code Black and has offered 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 Evening, portraying Lorne Michaels in Jason Reitman’s story of the making of Saturday Evening Stay’s first episode.
Brown is a Netflix function favourite due to her enduring function as Eleven within the firm’s Stranger Issues collection, which has its fifth and ultimate season arriving in two components 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 lately wrapped Enola Holmes 3, wherein 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 Supply. Lasky is repped by Echo Lake Leisure and Goodman Genow.