The news of a secret film starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig, made for the Lifetime TV network, leaked in April and was followed by an almost immediate confirmation that it had been scrapped. But, according to a tweet from the Hollywood Reporter’s Rebecca Ford, an LA billboard has revealed that the film will be airing later this month.
A Deadly Adoption, everyone. pic.twitter.com/hsQ5Oom5av
— Rebecca Ford (@Beccamford) June 3, 2015
The film A Deadly Adoption was made by Ferrell and Wiig in private, as a knowing take on the traditional Lifetime movie, typified by low budgets, melodramatic plots and overwrought acting. It’s part of the network’s 25th anniversary of making original movies, with names such as Hostile Makeover, Blindfold: Acts of Obsession and Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy.
The plot of Ferrell and Wiig’s campy thriller sees a couple who house a pregnant woman in the hopes of adopting her child. It also stars Jessica Lowndes, from Beverly Hills 90210.
Ferrell and Wiig have previously co-starred in Anchorman 2 and The Spoils of Babylon, itself a spoof of a 1980s miniseries. Ferrell has also produced Welcome to Me, a comedy drama starring Wiig as a woman who wins the lottery.
A Deadly Adoption will air on 20 June in the US, with no UK date planned.
