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Family Switch is coming to Netflix as a part of the Fall 2023 lineup. Rising star from the sensational Wednesday sequence Emma Myers has been solid in a lead position as she takes on her second position in a Netflix Original. Here’s all the things we all know thus far about Family Switch on Netflix.
First introduced in February 2021 (simply forward of the discharge of Yes Day on Netflix), Jennifer Garner can be taking part in the lead in a brand new household film from Grey Matter Productions, About it Productions, and Linden Entertainment. The mission was initially referred to as Family Leave.
This will mark Garner’s fourth main title for Netflix following her voice position in Llama Llama, Yes Day, and 2022’s The Adam Project, the place she starred alongside Ryan Reynolds and Mark Ruffalo.
Jennifer Garner in The Adam Project alongside Ryan Reynolds – Picture: Netflix
Victoria Strouse serves as the author of the film adaptation, which is predicated on the kids’s guide Bedtime for Mommy by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Strouse is finest recognized for engaged on Pixar’s Finding Dory, ABC’s October Road, and Disney’s Tink.
McG, who beforehand directed Rim of the World, The Babysitter, and its sequel, The Babysitter Killer, all solely for Netflix, returns to direct what can be his fourth characteristic movie for the streaming service.
This marks the author’s second main Netflix film following 2019’s Let It Snow, starring Isabela Merced and Shameik Moore.
Justine Baddeley Arteta, Jane Flowers, and Kim Davis-Wagner are casting administrators for the characteristic movie. McG, Lawrence Grey, Ben Everard, Nicole King, and Jason Brian Rosenthal function producers.
When will Family Switch be launched on Netflix?
EntertainmentWeekly was handed the unique first have a look at the brand new film on August twenty eighth, revealing that the film can be touching down on November thirtieth, 2023.
It got here alongside two first-look images of the brand new film:
EntertainmentWeekly has your first have a look at FAMILY SWITCH (fka Family Leave) coming to Netflix on November thirtiethhttps://t.co/skQbUQCof0 pic.twitter.com/0W8OsDf4Pf
— What’s on Netflix (@whatonnetflix) August 28, 2023
The film has been rated PG-13 for some suggestive materials.
What is Netflix’s Family Switch about?
Per Netflix’s preliminary announcement, right here’s what you may count on:
“The Brenners wake up to a full family body switch, they quickly realize the same thing has happened to a family on the other side of the world; they must unite with this group of strangers and determine how to undo the body switch.”
An extra synopsis offered to us that fleshes out extra of the plot:
“The Walkers are a nuclear family of five: Mom Jess, Dad Bill, 16 year old daughter CC, 14 year old son WYATT, and 2 year old daughter Mia. But when a mysterious event occurs at the Griffith Park Planetarium, the nuclear elements split and recombine; Jen’s mind is in CC’s body (and vice versa), while Bill’s mind is in WYATT’s body (and vice versa). While CC and Wyatt try to navigate the impossibly complicated world that is adulthood (responsibilities, skills, fears, ambitions), Jen and Bill must work their way through the insanely intricate network of rites of passage (bullying, soccer games, music, parties, romance) that comes with being a teenager, while all four scramble to undo the spell that catastrophically recombined their personalities…”
In the aforementioned EW article, they be aware that the film is about round Christmas time and says it’s finally about empathy. McG informed them, “We hope that it’s surprising and light and more intelligent than you might think.”
The film is predicated on the guide Bedtime for Mommy written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. The 32-page kids’s guide was launched in 2010.
Bedtime for Mommy Book Cover
Where and when did Netflix’s Family Switch movie?
Filming on the sequence started on December fifth, 2022 and wrapped up just a few months afterward March fifth, 2023.
Some avid followers of Emma Myers have taken some images from behind the scenes whereas filming is ongoing.
Emma Myers filming her new Netflix movie 😍🥰💕 pic.twitter.com/dQs9w6a4th
— SlasherMan (@NeonGiallo) February 18, 2023
#NEW : Emma Myers just lately for the filming of the movie “Family Leave” from Netflix (22/02/2023) pic.twitter.com/3AGH6BXLCi
— Emma Myers (@emmamyersupdate) February 24, 2023
Filming on Family Switch can be going down in Los Angeles, California with the mission additionally receiving a tax grant from the California Film Commission again in February 2022.
Jennifer Garner talking concerning the tax credit score, stated, “As an actor, producer, and mother, it’s impossible to overstate what shooting locally means to me and other families in this industry. I’ve been lucky to work with some of the greatest crew members of my career here in California, and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with some of my home team friends on this project.”
Who are the solid members of Family Switch?
At first, solely Jennifer Garner was confirmed, and shortly after, Ed Helms was introduced to co-star alongside her.
Helms is finest recognized for his lengthy stint on the NBC sequence The Office, the place he performed Andy Bernard. Helms headlined Coffee & Kareem for Netflix and was featured in A Futile and Stupid Gesture.
The manufacturing lastly started it was introduced that Wednesday star Emma Myers was solid within the film. Myers portrayed Enid Sinclair within the record-breaking Netflix sequence, Wednesday Addams’s werewolf roomie. Before that, Myers starred within the crime thriller Girl within the Basement, and a sequence of small shorts.
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Also confirmed to star in Family Switch is The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers actor Brady Noon, who has been solid within the position of Wyatt. Brady can be well-known for being one of many hilarious trio of Good Boys.
Rounding out the solid for Family Switch consists of:
- Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
- Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of the Dead)
- Leon Masuda (The Flash)
- Bashir Salahuddin (Top Gun: Maverick)
- Paul Scheer (The League)
- Fortune Feimster (The Mindy Project)
- Xosha Roquemore (Precious)
- Andrew Bachelor (The Babysitter)
- Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (Me Time)
- Pete Holmes (College. Humor Originals)
- Ned Bellamy as Hanes (Blonde)
- Naomi Ekperigin (Me Time)
- Dan Finnerty as Gus (The Hangover)
- Vanessa Carrasco (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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