Will Ferrell And Kristen Wiig Secretly Filmed A Lifetime Movie Called "Deadly Adoption" Set To Come Out This Summer

AV Club- It’s always fun when an outlet like The Hollywood Reporter has to preface a news story with “this is no April Fools’ joke.” After all, today is the first of April, and it’s a bit tough to completely avoid things that are designed to expose fools for what they really are. This story really does warrant that disclaimer, though, because it’s pretty weird: According to THR, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig secretly made a Lifetime movie—and not as a Funny Or Die sketch, either. This is an actual Lifetime movie that’s going to actually air on Lifetime in honor of the 25th anniversary of the network’s first foray into the (varyingly) trashy TV movie business. Titled A Deadly Adoption, the movie stars Ferrell and Wiig as a married couple who take care of a pregnant woman so they can adopt her baby once she gives birth. This is a Lifetime movie, though, so “things quickly go awry,” as THR puts it. A Deadly Adoption is being billed as a “campy and fun” satire of Lifetime movies, and its script was written by Andrew Steele—the guy behind IFC’s The Spoils Of Babylon, which was also an elaborate TV genre parody. A Deadly Adoption is set to premiere on Lifetime early this summer.

It’s April 2nd now so this can’t be a joke.  And it actually sounds like it’s happening.  What are Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig doing filming a shitty Lifetime movie you might be asking yourself?  Because it’s everybody’s dream to be in a shitty Lifetime movie.  Duh.  Everybody knows that.  They just happen to be in a position to actually make one and it’ll probably be awesome because Wiig and Ferrell are awesome.  Have you ever watched the movies they air on Lifetime?  They’re absurd.  The plots normally don’t make any sense and there’s a lot of back stabbing and shitty acting.  It’s part of the charm of Lifetime movies.  Who wouldn’t want to be in one?  Exactly.  Well Ferrell and Wiig decided they wanted to be in one and now it’s coming out this Summer.  What a time to be alive.  I couldn’t be more excited for Deadly Adoption.

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PS- I like where Will Ferrel’s career has gone.  He’s basically at the, “Anything I want to do, I can do” stage.  Film a movie completely in Spanish despite there being zero reason to do so?  Done.  Play on 10 baseball teams in a single day by flying around in a helicopter?  Done.  Film a shitty Lifetime movie with Kristen Wiig?  Done.