If you thought that Alec Baldwin playing the voice of a baby in a DreamWorks Animation film was simply a fever dream you'd had after eating a bad kebab, surprise! Boss Baby is real, and still in the works. And it has just added more voices to its cast list, with TV host Jimmy Kimmel signing on alongside Lisa Kudrow, Patton Oswalt, Steve Buscemi and Miles Bakshi aboard.
With Austin Powers co-writer Michael McCullers loosely adapting Maria Frazzee’s picture book, 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.
Something has changed since we last saw the film hit our news radar, though – Kevin Spacey is no longer involved, presumably because he was too busy voicing a cat in a new comedy (think we're kidding? You've clearly not read about Nine Lives).
Madagascar man Tom McGrath has Kimmel and Kudrow playing the parents, with Buscemi taking over Spacey's role as Francis E. Francis, the corporate villain. Bakshi is on as the older brother, with Oswalt bringing his comic chops to same role, but grown, narrating the story. Boss Baby should be with us in April next year.