Saturday Night Live eras will converge in an upcoming movie. Two of the show's most iconic and beloved cast members are set to star opposite each other.
Bill Murray and Kristen Wiig will star in the comedy Epiphany directed by Max Barbakow and written by Mitch Glazer. Per Variety, the plot follows "Favorite Ives (Wiig), an heiress and fashionista who has blown through her entire fortune and is forced to take up a challenge: marry a rich husband in two weeks or lose everything and end up on the street. Her desperate search for a big-money mark slams her into eccentric math savant and billionaire Oz Bell (Bill Murray). Favorite needs Oz’s money and Oz craves Favorite’s spirit and spontaneity."
Barbakow already has a history working with Saturday Night Live alum. He collaborated with Andy Samberg on the science-fiction romantic-comedy Palm Springs.
For Glazer and Murray, this is another chance for the pair to work together. Previously, they've partnered for Scrooged, Lost in Translation, Rock the Kasbah, and A Very Murray Christmas.
Wiig and Murray have worked together on the big screen, albeit briefly. Murray had a cameo in Ghostbusters, the 2016 reboot co-starring Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones.
Bill Murray and Kristen Wiig's movie has a recipe for success
It can be easy for Hollywood to stick two funny people together in a movie and expect it to work. But there are countless examples of that ending up in failure or box office bombs.
But Epiphany seems to have a recipe for success. Yes, director Max Barbakow's last movie, Brothers, didn't exactly set the world on fire. But Palm Springs was a hit and proved he can deliver a crowd pleaser.
A script by Mitch Glazer should do a lot of the heavy lifting. Clearly, he understands Bill Murray's voice and sense of humor. And the notoriously elusive Murray trusts Glazer to give him the best material to work from on screen.
Meanwhile, Kristen Wiig has demonstrated she is more than just the Target Lady. Palm Royale let her flex more of her dramatic muscles while keeping true to her comedy roots.
A release date has not been announced.