Mar 11 2009 Jeff Goldblum is Watching You Exchange That Sperm with Your Own
Jeff Goldblum, most commonly associated with the bodily function of pooping, is about to shake things up a bit and co-star in the semen-switching comedy The Baster:
Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of "The Baster," Mandate's romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman.Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, the story follows a man (Bateman) whose female best friend (Aniston) plans to become pregnant with artificial insemination, but he replaces the preferred sample with his own. Seven years later, she returns to New York with her son, and he is forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father.
Goldblum will get to exercise his comedy chops by playing Bateman's business partner and confidant, whose idea of working out is walking slowly on the treadmill while eating a candy bar.
What great characterization! "This guy is really bad at working out. Really lackadaisical, plus defeating the purpose by simultaneously consuming empty calories." And maybe I'm wrong, but shouldn't someone fitting that description be overweight, or at least not noticeably lean and fit? As much as I like Jeff Goldblum, I fear they've miscast the "horrible exerciser" character.
Feb 6 2009 Aniston 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]
Dec 16 2008 Jennifer Lopez Has a Baby and Also a New Boyfriend--WHAT???
CBS Films, noticing a glaring fertility-themed romantic comedy hole in next year's schedule, has signed Jennifer Lopez to star in just such a film:
Jennifer Lopez has signed on to star in the fertility-themed romantic comedy "Plan B" for CBS Films.Penned by Kate Angelo, story centers on a single woman (Lopez) who turns to artificial insemination to answer her ticking biological clock only to meet the man of her dreams on the same day as her positive pregnancy test results.
OK, so she's pregnant, like she wanted, and now she's apparently fallen instantaneously in love. What's the issue? That she fears her perfect man would hate any child not born of his seed? That she now loathes the baby growing inside her because it's not spawned from her sudden crush? If that's the case, then still, what's the plot? Jennifer Lopez contemplating if having an abortion after artificial insemination would be too much of a waste of money? I feel like I've already given this premise more critical thought than its writer probably did.
Is there a way this makes an obvious romantic comedy plot that I'm missing?
Jennifer Lopez going with 'Plan B' [Variety]
