All-Star Cast Joins Adam Shankman's 'This Is Where I Leave You'

With his latest film, Rock of Ages, two weeks away from release, director Adam Shankman has locked in his follow-up project. It's a comedy called This Is Where I Leave You and will star Jason Bateman, Zac Efron, Goldie Hawn and Leslie Mann as family members who return home to sit shiva for their father. Locked in a house for seven days, they air a lot of dirty laundry. (Figuratively, of course. Though with a big family, over seven days, there's probably some literal laundry too.) The script is written by Jonathan Tropper based on his own novel of the same name. There's more after the jump.

Deadline broke the news of this film, which is set up at Warner Bros. Here's the plot description of Tropper's book for a bit more detail.

The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman family—including Judd's mother, brothers, and sister—have been together in years. Conspicuously absent: Judd's wife, Jen, whose fourteen-month affair with Judd's radio-shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public.

Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch's dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. In the same house. Like a family.

As the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. For Judd, it's a weeklong attempt to make sense of the mess his life has become while trying in vain not to get sucked into the regressive battles of his madly dysfunctional family. All of which would be hard enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd's father died: She's pregnant.

This Is Where I Leave You is Jonathan Tropper's most accomplished work to date, a riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not.The Amazon page has some other glowing reviews of the novel so head there to read those, if you so choose.

With these four names attached, a majority of the major roles are cast but there are still a few openings. Bateman would likely be  the lead, Judd, Mann would be the oldest sister Wendy and Hawn will be the matriarch of the family. Efron would probably be the youngest sibling in the family, Phillip, described as "the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead."

I'm always up for a good, adult drama with laughs and it sounds like this film will be just that.