Now here’s news to put a smile on your face – the great Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of the Jason Bateman-Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy, Baster.
Frankly, Goldblum – with his array of pregnant pauses, half-smiles and eyes that intimate that he’s been told a really naughty joke about you just seconds before meeting you - is so darned awesome that he could join the cast of any film, even one entitled Empire Sucks And Smells Of Poo, and we’d whoop and holler at the news. But we’re particularly pleased that he’s joining a Jason Bateman film. Scientists even now are scrambling to calculate the fallout from this explosion of sheer brilliance.
Now, we know we’re forgetting something amidst all the gushing. Oh yes, the plot. Aniston will play a woman trying to get pregnant through artificial insemination. Bateman plays her best friend who, for reasons that are still not entirely clear, swaps out her sample and replaces it with his own… well, you know. Seven years, when Aniston returns to New York with a young child in tow, Bateman must struggle with the knowledge that he is the father.
Clearly, we’re talking an insane chucklefest. Goldblum will play Bateman’s business partner, who likes to work out on a treadmill while eating a chocolate bar. Like we said, barrel of laughs.
But then again, we’re going to put our trust in the taste of Aniston, Bateman and Goldblum, and hope that Will Speck and Josh Gordon’s finished film is so much better than the synopsis.
In the meantime, here’s your homework for the day: go find a copy of Powder, fast-forward to Goldblum’s introduction; perhaps the most quintessentially, quirky, Jeff Goldblum moment of all time. And laugh yourselves silly.