There's nothing that modern comedy films like better than adding an elder-statesman acting veteran to ground proceedings. Hence the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vehicle The Nest has just gained James Brolin. He'll be bringing the gravitas as the pair's father.
Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) is directing the film, which finds two sisters coming home to discover that their parents are selling the family home and moving to a small condo, so that the girls will need to find alternative lodgings now that the “nest” is no longer open to them.
As a last hurrah at the old homestead, they decide to spend a final weekend there together, throwing what Deadline describe as "a rager". Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project, Eastbound And Down) is set to play a neighbor with amorous designs on Fey’s character.
Fey and Poehler's SNL colleague and frequent collaborator Paula Pell wrote the script, and Fey is producing along with Jay Roach and John Lyons. Shooting started yesterday for a release at Christmas next year.