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January Nelson
Jennifer Garner is passing on Jenna Rink to a new generation, and she’s cheering from the producer’s chair. His verdict on his replacement Emily Bader: “she’s lovely.”
At Mann Village in Westwood, the premiere of ’13 Going on 30′ drew stars Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo, posing for a photo together on April 14, 2004, in Los Angeles. Photo by Carlo Allegri / Getty Images.
The cameras roll out on June 23 in Los Angeles under the working title Authentic, with wrap slated for August 11, with approximately 35 days of principal photography. The production attracted a California tax credit of about $10.9 million compared to $31.2 million in qualifying expenditures, and Netflix is treating this as a reconsideration rather than a recapture. One modern update confirmed: the Jenna Rink equivalent, now named Grace Fischer, has two fathers.
Jennifer Garner on the New York City set of ‘Thirteen Goes On Thirty’ on June 30, 2003, wearing a floral dress and a pendant necklace while holding a decorative lollipop. Photo by Steven Henry/Getty Images.
Brett Haley directs, fresh from Emily Bader’s Netflix rom-com People We Meet on Vacation, which spent four weeks in the platform’s Global Top 10 and charted in 92 countries. He brought in Bader and had Logan Lerman in mind at first as his foil. Hannah Marks wrote the script, with reviews by Flora Greeson (The Princess Diaries 3), and Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum are producing for RK Films.
Logan Lerman, who will star in the ’13 Going on 30′ reboot, arrives at the 5th Annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles on October 18, 2025, wearing a burgundy satin shirt and matching tie. Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images.
Garner is the executive producer, and he says he doesn’t know how the story will turn out either. “I don’t really know what it’s going to be,” he told E! News of the Los Angeles premiere of Five Star Weekend on July 8. “But I think people will have a lot of fun watching it.”
Emily Bader steps out to receive the Directors Guild of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on February 7, 2026. Photo by Emma McIntyre / Getty Images.
For him, the new version carries the memory of original director Gary Winick, who died of brain cancer in 2011, seven years after the release of the first film. “I feel like the legacy of our director continues,” he said. “It just makes me so happy.”
No release date has been announced, but with a short shoot and an upcoming production, 2027 is the most likely window.
Outside the Fox Westwood Village Theater on April 14, 2004, Jennifer Garner waves to the crowd gathered for the Los Angeles premiere of “13 Going on 30.” Photo by Carlo Allegri / Getty Images.
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