Amazon Studios is starting production on the rom-com “
I Want You Back,” starring Charlie Day, Jenny Slate, Gina Rodriguez, Scott Eastwood, Manny Jacinto, and Clark Backo. Jason Orley, who also directed “Big Time Adolescence,” will helm the project, working from a script by “Love, Simon” writers and “This Is Us” co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.
Peter Safran and John Rickard of The Safran Company, and Aptaker and Berger of The Walk-Up Company. are producing the movie, with production slated to start early next month in Atlanta. The extended cast includes Jami Gertz, Jordan Carlos, Midori Francis, Mason Gooding, Isabel May, and Luke David Blumm.