Director Hadi Elbagoury began the filming process for Hepta: The Last lecture on Sunday after going through a long pre-production phase throughout most of 2015. Although the film includes a long lineup of superstars, the very first scene will only include two children in a school setting. As filming begins, Elbagoury comments that he is "more than excited to finally begin filming Hepta. I felt that the pre-production phase was endless, but here we are now, which makes me very optimistic towards this project."

Based on the novel by the same name, the film portrays four parallel stories embodying the seven stages of love as depicted by Mohamed Sadek in his bestselling novel.

The film stars Maged El Kedwany, Amr Youssef, Yasmine Raeis, Ahmed Dawood, Ahmed Malek, Dina El Sherbiny, Jamila Awad and Hany Adel. with more cast announcements expected in the coming days. The film is producted by Hani Osama through The Producers which was founded by Elbagoury himself. The script was penned by Wael Hamdy, while the crew also includes Director of Cinematography Gamal El Boushy and Set Designer Hend Haidar.