WTF: Kevin Spacey To Become Trapped in a Cat's Body in New Film

It's 2015, so forgive me if I thought we were done with body-swapping comedies in which a human is trapped in an animal's body. But according to The Wrap, Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld and House of Cards star Kevin Spacey aren't finished with the genre yet - they're teaming for a new film called Nine Lives, in which Spacey will play "a workaholic businessman who suffers a terrible accident that leaves him trapped in the body of the family cat."

EuropaCorp is producing the high-concept comedy, which is written by Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. Sonnenfeld called the project a "funny, emotional, commercial comedy," but I'm just not sure people will go to see a movie with a plot like that for any reason other than the "WTF" factor of it. I suppose Sonnenfeld has directed weirder things (the MIB franchise is admittedly pretty insane), but at this point, not knowing anything about the project other than its logline, it's tough to figure out why two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey would sign on to something this strange. I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this one, if for no reason other than to satisfy my curiosity about this bizarre-sounding project.