Though DreamWorks Animation's main panel at Comic-Con this year was ostensibly all about Trolls, the company also dropped some new information and footage from The Boss Baby. And it brought along star Alec Baldwin for good measure.
Madagascar directing veteran Tom McGrath is overseeing this one, which is goo-goo-globally dominating its way to our cinemas in 2017. The Boss Baby finds a seven-year-old boy becoming jealous of the attention lavished upon his smart-talking, briefcase-sporting baby brother (Baldwin).
Looking to win back his parents’ affection, the older kid discovers a secret plot by the CEO of Puppy Co. that threatens to destroy the balance of love in the world. It turns out that the brash baby executive, who has finagled his way into the family like a cuckoo, is the focus of the plan – and the brothers will have to work together to stop the scheme and prove love is an infinite force.
Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow are the parents, with Patton Oswalt as the grown older boy who acts as our narrator. Steve Buscemi will be Francis E. Francis, the corporate villain. Austin Powers man Michael McCullers adapted the story from Marla Frazee's kids' book.
The clips shown were fun enough, though not quite as instantly fun as it might be, even with the revelation that the animation team narrowed in on the choice of Baldwin by using his Glengarry Glen Ross speech with the words put in a baby that had been designed for Megamind. There's a feature for the home entertainment release!