You’ll recall the Miramax film, “The Baster” directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon. It’s essentially an artificial insemination comedy.
And it stars Jennifer Aniston as an unmarried 40 year old woman who turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend (Jason Bateman), who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
It was a big 2008 Black List script favorite and got sold pretty soon afterwards. Well, it might be changing its title according to Vulture who says that title has tested poorly.
The good news though is that it seems that Disney is handling the release, which probably makes sense given the talent involved. When Miramax folded, it wasn’t clear what was going to happen to the film, but it seems like it’s been absorbed and last we heard comes out August 20.
“The Baster” is actually based on a story by celebrated author Jeffrey Eugenides (“The Virgin Suicides,” “Middlesex”) and the script, written by Allan Loeb (“Things We Lost in the Fire,” “Wall Street 2”), was again, a big hit.
Patrick Wilson, Juliette Lewis, and Jeff Goldblum co-star. Our main concern is Speck and Gordon are the directing duo that brought us the Will Ferrell dud, “Blades Of Glory.” Let’s hope they don’t round off the edges of a smart script and pray the upcoming easier-to-digest title isn’t a darker sign of Disney sanitization.
