On April 10, 2015, IM Global came on board to produce the film with producer Robert Teitel. Tanne would make his directing debut on the film, based on his own script, and producing alongside Tika Sumpter. Tika Sumpter would play Michelle, while no one had yet been cast in Barack's role. 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. The original idea was developed by Richard Tanne in 2007, after which he started writing the script.
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