Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Jennifer Aniston, and More Join OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY

The writers of The Office have written a new holiday comedy film for DreamWorks called Office Christmas Party, and while familiar faces like Michael Scott and Jim and Pam Halpert won't be attending (this isn't set in that universe), the project has scored its own solid foursome of actors.

THR reports that Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, T.J. Miller, and Kate McKinnon will star for directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory), who have been wanting to make this movie for the last six years. The Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (along with Laura Solon) are the latest writers to take a crack at the script, which, as you might be able to tell from the title, centers on an office Christmas party gone bad.

Filming begins this spring and will apparently be in theaters by December 9th of this year. That seems like a very quick turnaround, but with a title like that, they pretty much have to make that date in order to stay relevant or else risk having to push it until next year. As for the actors, Bateman next provides the voice for a lead character in Zootopia, Aniston is part of the ensemble in Mother's Day, Miller is currently in Deadpool and will be seen on the next season of HBO's Silicon Valley, and McKinnon is currently killing it on SNL and plays one of the four leads in this year's Ghostbusters.