Aniston, Bateman sign for 'The Baster'

Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman have reportedly signed on for romantic comedy The Baster.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Aniston will star as a woman who wants to get pregnant using artificial insemination.

Bateman will play her best friend Wally, who secretly replaces the donor's semen with his own and is then forced to live with fact that he is the baby's real father.

Blades Of Glory directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon will helm the project for Mandate Pictures.

21 scribe Allan Loeb has adapted the script from a Jeffrey Eugenides short story.