Nicole Kidman's new movie "The Family Fang" has added Christopher Walken to its cast according to Variety. Jason Bateman will also co-star and direct the movie. The Family Fang is about "a brother and sister who return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared." The film is based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same title written by Kevin Wilson which was published in 2011. The performance artist parents like to use their kids as human props for the most chaos-inducing stunts that they can devise; the parents, Caleb and Camille Fang, refer to the children, Annie and Buster, as "Child A" and "Child B." The book was wildly popular with The Wall Street Journal calling it "inventive and hilarious" and NPR saying the book is a "minty fresh delight." Following the book's release, the film rights were bought by actress Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films company. The movie will be produced by Red Crown's Daniela Taplin Lundberg and Riva Marker with Olympus Pictures' Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech, Blossom Films partners Kidman and Per Saari and Aggregate Films partners Bateman and Jim Garavente. Production will start in July.

Bateman and Kidman will portray siblings, Annie and Buster Fang. In the movie, they will learn the hard way about the differences between real life and art when their parents disappear without explanation. Walken will play the siblings' father Caleb Fang.

The movie features Jason Bateman's second directorial role, his first was "Bad Words," a 2013 American black comedy film. Bateman directed and starred in "Bad Words." He played a middle-aged eighth grade dropout who in order to get his revenge, finds a loophole to enter the National Quill Spelling Bee. Along the way, he befriends a female reporter and a young spelling bee contestant to whom he shows the wilder side of life. The comedy also stars Allison Janney, Rachael Harris, Philip Baker Hall, and Kathryn Hahn.