Feb 6 2009Aniston Secretly Filled with Bateman-Sperm! Whoops, Comedy!
Mandate Pictures--realizing they have nothing to compete against CBS Films' monopoly on "fertility-themed comedy"--have signed Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman to star in The Baster, a classic sperm mix-up story:
Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman have signed on to star in the fertility-themed comedy "The Baster" for Mandate Pictures.Will Speck and Josh Gordon, who previously teamed for the comedy "Blades of Glory," will helm "The Baster" from a screenplay by Allan Loeb ("21"). Film is based on Jeffrey Eugenides' short story "Baster," which was first published in The New Yorker.
"The Baster" centers on a neurotic and insecure man (Bateman) who finds out his best friend (Aniston) wants to have a child through artificial insemination. He surreptitiously replaces her donor's semen with his own and is then forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father.
Wouldn't she realize the semen was switched once her child reaches his teenage years and starts turning in a wolfman? Teen Wolf Too, y'see. Reference.
Now it's New York Comic Con time for me, dudes. Reports forthcoming!
Aniston, Bateman to star in 'Baster' [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. Nick - February 6, 2009 12:32 PM
I don't see how this movie can end with anything other than a restraining order. Also, shame on Jason Bateman for not actually basting Jennifer Aniston.
2. I am first so guess what thats right u suck it - February 6, 2009 12:51 PM
Yes that is true. Start sucking it. I am first. Suck it now. Firstfirst first
3. Nick - February 6, 2009 1:11 PM
I think you might actually be about 19 minutes late on that one.
4. Jamerson - February 6, 2009 2:14 PM
I think they should change the name of the film to "Rapester", and then slightly alter the plot.
PS, that comment was so awful that I had to change my name for anonymity purposes. Take THAT feminists!
5. kazanski13 - February 6, 2009 6:33 PM
this story is based on fact. The real story is Jennifer stole Brad Pitts sperm.
Will this Talentless Whore just go away. She plays rachel green in every role and is a pathetic human being.
6. Tyrone - February 6, 2009 6:57 PM
Jamerson - This is a Feminist here, and your comment actually pretty accurately reflects my feelings on this film. Good god.
7. Hal - February 6, 2009 9:21 PM
Color me disappointed - not with these actors lowering the bar below Will Smith vehicles and dog movies respectively, but because I thought Batman banged Aniston. Now THAT would have knocked her up (no pun intended) the ladder a bit!
8. Kathy - February 6, 2009 11:17 PM
I bet I know a certain person who wasn't too happy about this! Have fun at the Comic Con!
9. nun - February 7, 2009 1:29 PM
sperm rules
10. CTrees - February 8, 2009 10:38 AM
I *so* read that headline as "Aniston secretly filled with BATMAN-sperm!" Which of course got me wondering if it was Bale, Clooney, Keaton, Kilmer, or West...
Ah, sad reality.
11. tobes - February 8, 2009 6:58 PM
god how i wish it was west. and it's surprising that jeffrey eugenides, the very clever author of middlesex and the virgin suicides, would write a story with such a premise, but absolutely not surprising that this film is being made with the cast it has. it sounds like an entry in the "worst christmas movie" contest. and, alas, pretty much every other movie i read about these days sounds like one of those entries.
12. Mr. Jones - February 9, 2009 7:35 AM
So Bateman will be the character who is neurotic and insecure, not Aniston? I think this is a clear signal that Aniston is going to break away from her perpetual Rachel character. We're going to see some amazing acting here, folks. Right up there with Orson Wells playing a middle-aged man when he was, in real life, only 27.
13. Sinfonie - February 9, 2009 12:24 PM
What? This is a joke, right? Because otherwise, certain people need to be killed.
14. abj - March 19, 2009 12:04 PM
same old same old.
Add a certain "ex-gothic turns into a humanitarian" character and probably this will attract more audiences.
just saying.