Millie Bobby Brown, Gabriel LaBelle to Star in Rom-Com ‘Just Picture It’ for Netflix
Millie Bobby Brown and Gabriel LaBelle will get a glimpse of their future in “Just Picture It,” an upcoming romantic-comedy set at Netflix.
They’ll star as two college students who are surprised when their phones glitch and start showing them pictures from 10 years in the future, featuring them as a happily married couple with kids. It’s mostly weird because they have yet to meet each other. Lee Toland Krieger (“The Age of Adaline”) will direct “Just Picture It” from a script by Jesse Lasky, who used to write for “The Late Show With David Letterman.”
Brown has shepherded “Just Picture It” from inception and will serve as a producer, while her husband, Jake Bongiovi, will executive produce. The 21-year-old was propelled to fame as a pre-teen on Netflix’s “Stranger Things” (the fifth and final season debuts in November) and has since worked closely with the streamer on the Sherlock Holmes spinoff series “Enola Holmes” and fantasy adventure “Damsel.” She also has “Enola Holmes 3” in the works at Netflix as well as plans to adapt her debut novel “Nineteen Things” into a feature film.
LaBelle, 22, broke out as a young Steven Spielberg in the director’s semi-autobiographical drama “The Fabelmans.” He then proceeded to play another Hollywood heavyweight, “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, in director Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night.”
“Just Picture It” will also be produced by Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for RK Films as well as Robert Brown for PCMA Productions. Executive producers are Alyssa Altman for RK Films, Isobel Roberts for PCMA Productions and David Kern. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the project.
They’ll star as two college students who are surprised when their phones glitch and start showing them pictures from 10 years in the future, featuring them as a happily married couple with kids. It’s mostly weird because they have yet to meet each other. Lee Toland Krieger (“The Age of Adaline”) will direct “Just Picture It” from a script by Jesse Lasky, who used to write for “The Late Show With David Letterman.”
Brown has shepherded “Just Picture It” from inception and will serve as a producer, while her husband, Jake Bongiovi, will executive produce. The 21-year-old was propelled to fame as a pre-teen on Netflix’s “Stranger Things” (the fifth and final season debuts in November) and has since worked closely with the streamer on the Sherlock Holmes spinoff series “Enola Holmes” and fantasy adventure “Damsel.” She also has “Enola Holmes 3” in the works at Netflix as well as plans to adapt her debut novel “Nineteen Things” into a feature film.
LaBelle, 22, broke out as a young Steven Spielberg in the director’s semi-autobiographical drama “The Fabelmans.” He then proceeded to play another Hollywood heavyweight, “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, in director Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night.”
“Just Picture It” will also be produced by Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for RK Films as well as Robert Brown for PCMA Productions. Executive producers are Alyssa Altman for RK Films, Isobel Roberts for PCMA Productions and David Kern. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of the project.