--- title: Trailer Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig Lifetime Movie: A Deadly Adoption description: Yep, this is real canonical: https://time.com/3918072/kristen-wiig-will-ferrell-lifetime-movie/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-11T17:55:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:08:18.963Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Here's the First Look at Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Dramatic Lifetime Movie og:description: Yep, this is real og:url: https://time.com/3918072/kristen-wiig-will-ferrell-lifetime-movie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbd767cc49ec36d9/69885423cd1bba646d6fbc59/screen-shot-2015-06-11-at-1-39-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-06-11 at 1.39.20 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the First Look at Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Dramatic Lifetime Movie twitter:description: Yep, this is real twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbd767cc49ec36d9/69885423cd1bba646d6fbc59/screen-shot-2015-06-11-at-1-39-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the First Look at Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Dramatic Lifetime Movie  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jun 11, 2015 5:55 PM CUT   by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jun 11, 2015 5:55 PM CUT Two of Hollywood’s biggest comedians, Will Ferrell and Kirsten Wiig, are indeed starring in a Lifetime movie called _A Deadly Adoption_, which will air on June 20\. The first trailer for the “top secret” film is out, and it’s hard to tell whether it looks more like one of the network’s overly soapy dramas or an SNL sketch—or both. Ferrell and Wiig have kept the project largely under wraps. Ferrell even issued a statement to _Entertainment Weekly_ earlier this year saying that he and his co-star were “deeply disappointed” that news of the “top secret” project had leaked to the press, and said they were scrapping it. And yet, here is the first trailer filled with the sort of tension and ridiculous beard-growing a Lifetime fan could hope for. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3918072/kristen-wiig-will-ferrell-lifetime-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3918072/kristen-wiig-will-ferrell-lifetime-movie/"},"headline":"Here's the First Look at Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Dramatic Lifetime Movie","datePublished":"2015-06-11T17:55:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:08:18.963Z","description":"Yep, this is real","url":"https://time.com/3918072/kristen-wiig-will-ferrell-lifetime-movie/","keywords":["Television","movies","Lifetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbd767cc49ec36d9/69885423cd1bba646d6fbc59/screen-shot-2015-06-11-at-1-39-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbd767cc49ec36d9/69885423cd1bba646d6fbc59/screen-shot-2015-06-11-at-1-39-20-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-06-11 at 1.39.20 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3918072/kristen-wiig-will-ferrell-lifetime-movie/","name":"Here's the First Look at Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Dramatic Lifetime Movie"}}]}] ```