Posted: Mon., Dec. 17, 2007, 7:00pm PT

Baldwin joins Cassavetes's 'Keeper'

Actor's '30 Rock' schedule open due to strike

Alec Baldwin will join Cameron Diaz, Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning in "My Sister's Keeper," the Nick Cassavetes-directed adaptation of the Jodi Picoult novel for New Line.

Mark Johnson is producing. Jeremy Leven wrote the script; production begins in February.

Baldwin will play the attorney who represents a child (Elle Fanning) after she sues her parents for emancipation on the grounds they bred her to be a genetic match who could prolong the life of her cancer-ridden sister (Dakota Fanning). The girl's mother (Diaz) is a former trial lawyer and represents herself in court.

While his NBC series "30 Rock" halted shooting because of the writers strike, Baldwin had a contractual right to schedule a movie anyway. He will also voice a character in "Madagascar 2."


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