Will Ferrell And Kristen Wiig Allegedly Scrap Their Surprise Lifetime Movie Because It Became Public Knowledge
Entertainment Weekly- Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig say they are scrapping plans for their secret Lifetime movie after news of the project leaked online Wednesday night. “We are deeply disappointed that our planned top secret project was made public,” Ferrell said in a statement to EW. “Kristen and I have decided it is in the best interest for everyone to forego the project entirely, and we thank Lifetime and all the people who were ready to help us make this film.” The two-hour film was titled A Deadly Adoption and slated to air this summer. The idea was to release a quasi-parody of the soapy thrillers Lifetime is so well known for. Part of Lifetime’s 25th anniversary celebration of its movie franchise, the project was called a “high-stakes dramatic thriller” about husband (Ferrell) and wife (Wiig) who take in and care for a woman (Jessica Lowndes) in the final months of her pregnancy with the aim of adopting the baby, only to have the situation spiral dangerously out of control. The project was executive produced by Ferrell and Adam McKay. The script was penned by co-creator Andrew Steele, who co-created IFC’s The Spoils of Babylon, which starred Ferrell and Wiig.
Bulllllllllllllllshit. Yesterday we found out that Ferrell and Wiig filmed a secret Lifetime movie called A Deadly Adoption that was set to release some time this summer. The media got wind of it, reported it and now Ferrell says they’re scrapping the project altogether. Yeah, okay. That’s not happening. Not a chance. The movie is already made and I’m sure Lifetime dropped serious coin to put the movie on. No chance in hell it doesn’t run. I’d be curious to know if Ferrell even has the authority to scrap it at this point in the production. I get why he and Wiig are upset though. Were you in a movie theater when Wedding Crashers first came out and Will Ferrell emerged from the shadows as Chazz Reinhold? If you were then you know the place went bananas. Cheering, clapping, the whole 9. It was a goddamn delightful surprise. That’s probably how Ferrell and Wiig wanted this Lifetime movie thing to go. People losing their damn minds when they appeared in a Lifetime movie. The way Twitter is now it would’ve set the internet on fire the night it debuted. Too late now but Lifetime will show it. It’ll get monster ratings.
PS- And I realize these statements they’re making and sites like this one writing blogs about it is just better publicity for them and the movie but I’m a pawn. I know that.