Arrested Development star Jason Bateman directs Nicole Kidman’s production of The Family Fang

Jason Bateman, 45, probably best known for his portrayal of Michael Bluth in the TV sitcom series Arrested Development, directs and stars in the upcoming film adaptation of Kevin Wilson's best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Family Fang.

The film rights to Wilson's book was bought by Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films company in partnership with Per Saari and Olympus execs Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech, Aggregate Films' Bateman and Jim Garavente, and QED International's Bill Block. The script is penned by David Lindsay-Abaire based on the Wilson book. Filming startedJuly 14 this year in New York City. Kidman, 47, also stars alongside Bateman.

According to the film's synopsis, The Family Fang is about a couple of performance artists who routinely sucked their kids into taking part in a variety of bizarre events. When the full-grown children return home in a state of crisis, they are unwittingly enlisted to help in the execution of a daring and mysterious final performance by their parents, who are hellbent on achieving the act of a lifetime. Their kids harbor more than a little resentment and blame the performance art for how badly their own lives have turned out.

Bateman and Kidman play Buster and Annie Fang, respectively, the siblings who return to their family home in search of their apparently missing parents, the husband-and wife team of performance artists who routinely used them when they were kids in their bizarre performance acts, which they both blame for how badly indeed their present lives turned out. Christopher Walken, 71, is cast to play the role of their father Caleb Fang.

Meanwhile, fans of Arrested Development can expect a possible season five of the show. Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer of Netflix, told USA Today back in August that "It's just a matter of when." Will Arnett who plays George Oscar Bluth on the TV sitcom series told Jimmy Fallon on air, according to Daily Mail, "The truth is, that the guy who's the big boss man at Netflix, he announced it. We don't know when, but it's going to happen."