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