Kristin Chenoweth is set to lend her voice to the upcoming CG-animated comedy Space Chimps, a Vanguard Animation and Starz Media production for 20th Century Fox. Other actors lending their voices to the project include Andy Samberg, Jeff Daniels, Cheyl Hinds, Kenan Thompson, Stanley Tucci and Patrick Warburton.

Samberg will play Ham III, the ne’er-do-well grandson of the first chimp astronaut sent into space (loosely based on NASA’s real-life space chimp Ham). Seeking to capitalize on the Ham family name, a senator (Tucci) recruits Ham III to travel through a black hole to a planet where he and his simian colleagues (Hines, Warburton) help rid the local aliens of an evil leader (Daniels). Chenoweth will play a helpful alien, and Thompson will play Ham III’s mentor.

Barry Sonnenfeld (executive producer of Pushing Daisies) will produce.

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