'What To Expect When You're Expecting': Cameron Diaz Getting Offer For Pregnancy Manual Movie

From theme park ride to 80's action figure and board game, Hollywood has shown it can squeeze a movie out of anything, no matter how little juice may end up on the final reel. Now, the tinsel town is turning its eye on pregnancy manuals with the big screen adaptation of "What To Expect When You're Expecting."

"Expecting," however, won't be about preparing for your new bundle of joy; there will be no mental coaching or healthy pre-natal recipes. Instead, it'll be a romantic comedy -- and Cameron Diaz is expected to sign on for a leading role.

Diaz, who returns to her long-lost humor roots with the sex comedy "Bad Teacher," this summer, would take an unnamed part in the film, which Deadline says will be a sort of "Love Actually," that tells the tales of five couples awaiting a child. She recently remarked that she thought marriage was a dying institution.

The film, to be produced by Lionsgate, will be directed by Kirk Jones, who may be best known for his Irish indie comedy "Waking Ned Devine."

For more, click over to Deadline.

Comments

[Box500]

07:53 PM on 05/08/2011

What To Expect When You're Expecting: Geezer Gives Birth

[Akizme72]

03:33 PM on 05/08/2011

The problem I have with C. Diaz is that all the crass comments she makes to the press about this and that have permanently colored my perception of her as an actor. I find her so impossibly unrefined and generally brash and unpleasant I cannot bear to watch her in a movie anymore.

[marred]

08:30 PM on 05/08/2011

Ah, I don't think you're going to be missing out on that much.

[shariten]

01:09 AM on 05/08/2011

I have no interest in seeing Cameron Diaz in this movie or any other. I have never really liked her acting and don't think she is that hot and no, this isn't a jealousy thing because I will admit when women are hot like Sofia Vergara from Modern Family. Cameron has a Joker mouth. Arod just likes the fact that she's horny, "travels for c#ck (her words) and not interested in anything serious.

[Pinkasaurus]

11:35 AM on 05/07/2011

Sounds like a real snooze fest.

[yourmotherwasahamster]

09:41 AM on 05/07/2011

They could have picked someone a little more fertile looking

[AllyCat7]

05:58 PM on 05/07/2011

sexist

[LiberalLee]

04:02 PM on 05/08/2011

I have to agree. She tends to cavil too much against motherhood and marriage to be believable in a roll like this.

[littlebrowngirl]

07:11 AM on 05/07/2011

This will probably be in 3d too.

[SkippyJiffy]

04:00 AM on 05/07/2011

She needs to keep her hair long. Otherwise she looks like a dude

[Samantha Monteleone]

03:58 AM on 05/07/2011

I have to ask "Why?"

[Natoya Ebony]

01:17 AM on 05/07/2011

I don't know about this film...but I do want to see "Bad Teacher"
http://www.natoyaebony.com/

[hema333]

01:10 AM on 05/07/2011

when will cameron marry and has kids ???
she must does that on the next 3 years...

[AgathaX]

01:52 PM on 05/07/2011

Must? Really? From what I've heard, "ought not" is more like it.

[AllyCat7]

04:27 PM on 05/07/2011

Maybe she must does NOT want to. Ever think of that?

[laurawp]

11:27 PM on 05/06/2011

Gotta agree with most posters. The lead actress of this movie should have actually been pregnant and given birth herself. Bad choice.

[stape45]

09:17 PM on 05/06/2011

Uh, I'm gonna go way out on a limb, here.....a baby?

[doglove]

08:15 PM on 05/06/2011

Is Cameron the new ex-star everyone loves to hate?

[AllyCat7]

04:28 PM on 05/07/2011

Yup. What would all the misogynist, ageist h@ters do without all these aging Hollywood starlets? Our society makes me ill.

[doglove]

04:51 PM on 05/07/2011

I think Cameron's return to comedy will be a good thing, but this ingenue thing has to go. There are a bunch of Hollywood blondes who have now reached their forties but are still playing the same roles they did in their twenties. Cameron is one of them. They had their decades of the big roles and $$$, but to survive as an actor after age forty, you must grow, change, evolve to some extent. If all you play is a cute, young girl, eventually someone younger and prettier will come along.
But I am talking about her professionally.
It seems there are some pretty nasty personal comments about her here.
I saw her interviewed a few times and she came across just like she is on film. Giddy, silly, immature. I would not call her an interesting person, but I wouldn't call her names or wish her ill.

[LiberalLee]

04:08 PM on 05/08/2011

Oh pul-leez.
Holding many of these actresses up to critical review is NOT sexism, ageism, or any other ''ism".
Mindless, blind adoration of them talents notwithstanding demeans the public.
But if following the herd's approval of this, that, he or she is so important to you, or if you're not comfortable with anyone making critical assessments of your darlings, then perhaps you need better earplugs and blinkers.And for heave's sake lay off the over-used, over-exaggerated misuse of the non-word, "h@ter".
No matter hoe you spell or misspell it, you come off like a poorly-educated 5th grade kid in a playground.
If our society makes you ill, by all means, feel free to move and join another one.
No one's stopping you.
But doesn't that make YOU another h@ter too?

[americaisracist]

07:03 PM on 05/08/2011

no, why would anyone get wrapped up in these superficial things.

[doglove]

11:57 PM on 05/08/2011

Well, why would anyone be commenting here? I dont' know why, I just notice that lately the comments for Ms. Diaz have been rather mean spirited.
She is far from my favorite actor. But I do sense more of a 'dislike' for HER in these comments than just a statement that she is a mediocre actor.

[DawnK]

06:48 PM on 05/06/2011

Snooze fest. It sounds like another crappy movie for Cameron Diaz.

[JEC31980]

05:41 PM on 05/06/2011

Just had to make the point that "What to Expect when....." has to be the WORST pregnancy book EVER. Full of misinformation.

Even thought this movie has really nothing to do with the book, it only further establishes that book as the go-to-book for new moms and dads.