Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig film secret Lifetime movie 'A Deadly Adoption,' due this summer

In what is apparently not an April Fool's Day joke, it was just announced Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig signed on to star in the Lifetime film A Deadly Adoption. Not only is the ink dried for the actors on the TV movie, however, but they already shot the film in secret and it's due to air in early summer.

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. The "dramatic thriller," as it is described, follows a successful couple who care for a pregnant woman (Jessica Lowndes) in their house to adopt her unborn child. It's not long after this, however, when things go awry.

The tone of A Deadly Adoption is supposedly campy and fun, something of a wink to the type of films the channel is known to make as they approach their 25th anniversary this summer. The two-hour TV movie is also executive produced by Ferrell, alongside Adam McKay and their Gary Sanchez Productions, with a teleplay by Andrew Steele, the co-creator of IFC's The Spoils of Babylon, which Wiig and Ferrell also starred in. It is directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, who helmed a variety of shorts on Ferrell and McKay's Funny or Die.

A Deadly Adoption also comes from Mar Vista Entertainment and National Picture Show.In addition to writing, Steele also executive produced, as did fellow executive producers Sharon Bordas, Fernando Szew and Jessica Elbaum.

Coming from this past weekend's Get Hard, Ferrell has a number of projects in the pipeline or in the works. He stars in James Franco's Zeroville, and also soon reprises his role of Mugatu in Zoolander 2, set to be released next year. He also reunited with his The Other Guys star Mark Wahlberg
in Daddy's Home, which is currently in production. He also appeared earlier this week as Ron Burgandy at the Roast of Justin Bieber.

In addition to this, some other projects his name came attached to include an untitled Shakespearean comedy, Russ & Roger Go Beyond and The House, just to name a few.

Wiig, meanwhile, soon stars in Welcome to Me, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Nasty Baby, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, Masterminds and The Martian. She also appears in the Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp mini-series and gives her voice to the R-rated animated film Sausage Party. She'll also soon join her Bridesmaids director Paul Feig in his all-female re-imagining of Ghostbusters.

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