'13 Going On 30' is getting a Netflix reboot: Here's everything we know

Less than 30 years aft “13 Going On 30” made legions of young millennials privation to beryllium “big-time mag editors,” the classical rom-com is getting a reboot.

Jennifer Garner, who starred successful the 2004 archetypal arsenic the 30, flirty and thriving Jenna Rink other Mark Ruffalo’s Matt “Matty” Flamhaff, is enforcement producing the project. “People We Meet connected Vacation” prima Emily Bader and Logan Lerman, known for “Oh, Hi!” and “Perks of Being a Wallflower,” volition prima successful the reboot.

Brett Haley, who directed Netflix’s “People We Meet connected Vacation,” volition reunite with Bader to helm the project.

In a connection to “Deadline,” Haley said, “‘13 Going On 30’ is 1 of those rare, cleanable films. Funny, emotional, profoundly human, with unforgettable performances from Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, and Judy Greer. I’m a longtime fan, truthful stepping into this reimagining comes with tremendous responsibility.”

“Jennifer Garner being connected committee arsenic an enforcement producer, aft playing specified a large portion of what made the archetypal special, is particularly meaningful,” Haley continued. “I besides couldn’t beryllium much excited to reunite with Emily Bader aft ‘People We Meet connected Vacation.’ She and the amazingly talented Logan Lerman are a magical pairing. I consciousness incredibly fortunate to beryllium trusted with thing that means truthful overmuch to truthful galore people.”

In lawsuit you missed it (or were surviving nether a stone successful 2004), our erstwhile Los Angeles Times movie professional Manohla Dargis wrote of the film: “Another iteration connected the seemingly indestructible body-switching premise, ‘13 Going On 30’ intimately adheres to the indispensable gimmick and learning curve introduced to superior effect successful the 1988 deed ‘Big.’

“After a disastrous day enactment and a foolish privation to go ‘30, flirty and thriving’ (some alliterative propaganda she’s work successful a manner magazine), Jenna wakes 1 greeting to observe that she’s metamorphosed into an older, taller, somewhat curvier mentation of herself. Now played by Garner, the wild-eyed teen comes look to look with a privation fulfillment of a beingness that comes with a decorator Manhattan apartment, an enforcement presumption astatine a slick women’s magazine, a hockey-star fellow who likes to portion to Vanilla Ice, and enactment upon enactment of decorator shoes.”

While mum’s the connection connected crippled specifics, the publication for the reboot is by Hannah Marks, who penned and directed “Mark, Mary, & Some Other People,” with revisions by Flora Greeson, who wrote “The High Note.”

Once quality of the reboot broke online, societal media chatter picked up, with fans speculating which eras the movie whitethorn beryllium acceptable in. If, similar the original, the protagonist wakes up arsenic a 30-year-old successful today’s modern world, immoderate interest the flick won’t beryllium arsenic lighthearted arsenic the original.

One idiosyncratic connected Threads said, “The conception of a 13 Going connected 30 wherever a teen successful 2009 present wakes up successful THIS world successful her 30s feels similar fearfulness not romcom.”