A representative for two-time Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey confirmed the Hollywood screen icon will star in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Nine Lives," playing a businessman who gets trapped in a cat's body after a catastrophe, Entertainment Weekly reports. 

According to TheWrap, Spacey will play "a workaholic businessman who suffers a terrible accident that leaves him trapped in the body of the family cat."

Sonnenfeld describes "Nine Lives" as a "funny, emotional, commercial comedy," according to Slash Film.

Sonnenfeld, 61, who earned an Emmy for directing "Pushing Daisies" in 2008, is most widely known for directing the "Men in Black" trilogy, "The Addams Family" and "Addams Family Values." The director and executive producer teamed up with Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin to pen the screenplay, and the project will be headed by EuropaCorp, slated to finance and produce the film. According to Yahoo! News,  "Nine Lives" will be one of the company's premiere releases through Red, a distribution pipeline attached with Relativity. 

Earlier this month, Spacey received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Drama for his starring role as Frank Underwood, the centrist Machiavellian politician in Netflix's "House of Cards."  The legendary actor has won Oscars for "The Usual Suspects" in 1995 and  "American Beauty" in 1999, and in addition to his Golden Globe (his first out of eight nominations), he also took home a SAG Award for "House of Cards."

You can catch him in the political drama's third season Feb. 27.