According to Variety, Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) 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.

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.

Production begins in February. Jeremy Leven wrote the script.

My Sister's Keeper was released June 26th, 2009 and stars Abigail Breslin, Walter Raney, Sofia Vassilieva, Cameron Diaz, Heather Wahlquist, Jason Patric, Evan Ellingson, Alec Baldwin. The film is directed by Nick Cassavetes.