Southside With You is an upcoming American romantic dramedy film directed and written by Richard Tanne. The film stars Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter as a young Barack and Michelle Robinson Obama,
respectively. The film focuses on the couple's first date on an evening
in 1989 and their first kiss outside an ice cream parlor. Principal photography began in July 2015 in Chicago. Tanne is making his directorial debut on the film.
A young associate (Barack Obama) tries to win the heart of a young
lawyer (Michelle Robinson) in Chicago in 1989. On their first date, they
visit the Art Institute of Chicago, view a screening of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing", and have their first kiss outside an ice cream parlor.
The original idea was developed by Richard Tanne in 2007, following that he started writing the script. On December 5, 2014, Deadline reported that there would be a romance film titled Southside With You based on the first date of American President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, set in Chicago where the couple met in 1989 and married in 1992. Tika Sumpter would be playing Michelle while no one had yet been cast for Barack's role. Tanne would make his directing debut on the film based on his own script, and Tracey Bing and Stephanie Allain would produce for Homegrown Pictures.
On April 10, 2015, IM Global came on board to produce the film with producer Robert Teitel. In April 2015, Sumpter talked with Vulture
about her preparations to play the role of Michelle and she told that
she was "nervous" because she was about to play "Michelle Obama, who is
everything every woman wants to be," and she also told that she was
reading some poetry and books to get know more about Michelle, so she
could portray her role better. On May 7, 2015, Parker Sawyers was cast as the young Barack Obama.
Producers on the film would be Tanne and Sumpter along with Glendon
Palmer and Teitel through IM Global and State Street Pictures.
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