Will Ferrell tries out a different gig before he begins stealing flamingos.
Indiewire (amongst other outlets) reports that Will Ferrell will star in an adaptation of Susan Trott’s novel “The Flamingo Thief.” Michael LeSieur wrote the script.
Here’s how the book is described on Amazon:
Everyone handles grief differently but none so differently as Tim Forester, multimillionaire Juice King, who lost his son a year ago. It starts with him quietly pocketing a china flamingo belonging to his three year old niece, Joy, and by his tenth flamingo has escalated to felony grand theft. He is shot by one person and shot at by another. He is losing his business and his wife but he is feeling better. Flamingo thieving makes his heart beat. He comes alive. In a way he is having a wonderful time. But how will it end? Quite possibly in prison. Flamingo Thief is a funny, bittersweet story of love, loss, family, fruit and flamingoes. The reader will never forget Tim Forester, his disastrous way of dealing with grief, and a heart that is bursting with love.
This is something that I hope is a lot better on the page or the screen than it does in this description. As is, it sounds painfully quirky, awfully precious, and desperately thoughtful. Again, I hope that this just isn’t doing the book justice. And as dangerous as it sounds, the script was on the 2011 Blacklist, so it must have something to it.
There’s no director yet, but they’re looking. Flamingo friendly directors: contact your agents.
Ferrell can be seen this year in “Casa De Mi Padre” and “Dogfight.” He also did a fine job the other day introducing the Bulls-Hornets players.
