Willsten? Wiiggell? We're still working on their celebrity hybrid name, but we do know that Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell are one of our favorite comedic pairings. We also know that all the back-and-forth rumors about their upcoming Lifetime movie have been a real emotional roller coaster.
Ever since the first news broke back in April, we've been praying to the comedy gods to please pleeease let it be true. And today, thanks to the appearance of a Hollywood billboard, Lifetime confirmed that Wiig and Ferrell will be coming to the silver screen on June 20.
The flick, which is going to be called A Deadly Adoption (can we get a slow clap for that title?), is about a married couple (Ferrell and Wiig) who welcome a pregnant woman into their home to adopt her baby, but things go terribly, (probably) murderously, wrong. And the script was penned by The Spoils of Babylon's Andrew Steele.
Not much else is known about the movie besides the general plot, but that doesn't stop us from speculating. If we had to guess, we'd peg Wiig as the seemingly buttoned-up housewife (with a dark side), and Ferrell as the husband who discovers said dark side. Throw the pregnant birth mother into the mix, add some extramarital flirting and a whole lot of jealousy, and you've got yourself a Lifetime movie.
This clearly isn't the first time that Ferrell and Wiig are collaborating, so in celebration of the exciting news we decided to revisit a few of our favorite Will-Kristen moments. Here's hoping that some of these hilarious inside jokes make it into the Deadly Adoption final cut.
We couldn't do a Best Of Willsten without mentioning one of the funniest (and most crackpot) bits: presenting at the 2013 Golden Globes. Whether this was rehearsed or totally on the fly, the complete quirkiness of Will and Kristen making up plot points for the nominated movies is enough to make you cry-laugh. Unless you're dead inside, but then you probably haven't gotten this far in the story anyway.
Next up, the genius and bizarre Spoils of Babylon. Sensing a theme here? These two do weird just right. Our only wish for this IFC show would be more screen time with just the two actors.
Then there was the time they played a married couple for a fake Nasaflu commercial.
And the time that they showed up to the Spoils of Babylon premiere dressed like this. Earth to the Lifetime wardrobe team...get on this stat.
ALL THE TINY HANDS. End scene.
And, even though this is really more of a solo-Kristen thing, we couldn't let a Best Of list go by without showering praise on her truly uncanny impressions. Having tricked audiences into believing she was everyone from Michael Jordan to Khaleesi, the woman is basically a chameleon—the perfect talent for a Lifetime drama.