Millie Bobby Brown, Gabriel LaBelle to Star in Netflix Romantic Comedy ‘Just Picture It' (Exclusive)
Lee Toland Krieger, known for helming the drama The Age of Adaline and episodes of Netflix's hit You, will direct the feature.
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Written by Jesse Lasky, the script centers on two care-free college students (Brown, LaBelle) 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. The real glitch? They have yet to meet each other.
Veterans Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum are producing Just Picture It. Brown and Robert Brown are also producing, via their PCMA Productions. The project is Brown's first romantic comedy and she has shepherded the project from inception.
Executive producing are Alyssa Altman of R/K Films, Jake Bongiovi and Isobel Roberts for PCMA Productions, and David Kern.
This is the first feature sale for Lasky, who hails from the TV world. He began his career in New York comedy as a monologue joke writer for The Late Show with David Letterman and later acted as an associate producer on the entire run of the ABC's series Revenge. On top of writing freelance episodes, he wrote and produced all DVD bonus features for the show, and was also hired to write the Revenge spin-off novel that was published by Hyperion. He was also a staff writer on the medical drama Code Black and has sold pilots across town.
LaBelle famously starred as a young Steven Spielberg in the director's Oscar-nominated semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans. Last year, he was the center of Saturday Night, portraying Lorne Michaels in Jason Reitman's tale of the making of Saturday Night Live's first episode.
Brown is a Netflix feature favorite thanks to her enduring role as Eleven in the company's Stranger Things series, which has its fifth and final season arriving in two parts in November. Earlier this year, she starred in the big-budget sci-fi adventure movie The Electric State opposite Chris Pratt, and last year toplined the dragon fantasy Damsel, both for Netlix. Damsel, which she also produced, is number 9 on the streamer's most popular films list (English). She recently wrapped Enola Holmes 3, in which she stars and also executive produced for PCMA.
Brown is repped by WME and Hansen, Jacobson. LaBelle is repped by CAA, Play Management, and Sloane Offer. Lasky is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment and Goodman Genow.
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