ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY magazine
"Jennifer has a special delivery on the way. No she's not expecting, but she is the latest actor added to the up-coming Warner Bros. Pictures animated/comedy film 'Storks'. EW can exclusively reveal that Jennifer is on board to play a mother in 'Storks', an upcoming film about a workaholic bird and a spirited teenage girl who team up to transport a newborn baby to its rightful home.
Aniston joins an ensemble cast including Golden Globe award-winning actor/comedian Andy Samberg (FOX's police procedural/sitcom 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'), Golden Globe award-winning actor Kelsey Grammer (FX's sitcom 'Partners' and Starz political drama/thriller series 'Boss'), Screen Actors Guild award-winning actor/comedian Ty Burell (ABC's sitcom 'Modern Family'), actor Danny Trejo, and actor/comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (Comedy Central's 'Key & Peele').
Co-directed by Nicholas Stoller (2008 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall') and Doug Sweetland (1995 'Toy Story' and 2006 'Cars'), 'Storks' is set in a world where the titular avians long ago switched from delivering babies to delivering packages for an Amazon-like internet retailer called Cornerstone.
Stoller, who also wrote the script, told EW "The film is in part a letter to parenthood," one that was inspired by his own experiences as a father of two girls. "It's about the kind of blessing that kids are, which I didn't really understand when we had our first child because it wasn't so easy," Stoller said. "And then the second one was SO hard to have that, like, literally every single thing she does is amazing to me. So that's kind of [the inspiration]. I mean, there aren't scenes in fertility clinics, but the germ of the idea came from that," added Stoller.
While director Nicholas Holler is perhaps best known for his work on adult comedies - (he wrote both 2014 'Sex Tape' starring actress Cameron Diaz and actor/comedian Jason Segel, and directed both 2014 'Neighbors' and its sequel 2016 'Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising' starring actor Zac Efron and actor/comedian Seth Rogen) - 'Storks' represented a different sort of challenge. The goal was to deliver a family film with a sophisticated emotional center that's also "hard funny," said Stoller adding, "something that parents will find as fun as their kids." 'Storks' is in theaters September 23, 2016 distributed for wide-release through Warner Bros. Pictures."
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