Kristen Wiig and Bill Murray are set to lead the planned comedy movie Epiphany from Palm Springs director Max Barbakow.
Rocket Science will be introducing Epiphany at the European Film Market in Berlin this week. In addition to starring, Wiig and Murray will also serve as the project’s executive producers along with Jillian Apfelbaum and Margot Hand. It is written by Mitch Glazer (The Recruit).
What is Epiphany about?
The project will see Wiig playing Favorite Ives and Murray playing Oz Bell. Per the plot description (via The Hollywood Reporter), Epiphany will revolve around Wiig’s Favorite, whose “massive fortune evaporates overnight.” She only has “two weeks to nab a rich husband and fight creditors to stay off the street. Her desperate search for a big-money mark slams her into eccentric math savant and billionaire Oz Bell (Murray). Favorite needs Oz’s money and Oz craves Favorite’s spirit and spontaneity. Can this unlikely couple find something more?”
In a statement (courtesy of THR), Barbakow said: “It’s a rare, delightful experience when a story takes you on a journey that all at once manages to make you laugh, make you feel, and hold a mirror up to the wonderful absurdities of everyday life. It’s even more delightful when your spirit guides are Bill Murray and Kristen Wiig. But Epiphany carries that breadth of tone, depth of wisdom, and such a lush sense of cinematic possibility, all while teeing up iconic roles for two already-iconic, totally original unicorns in Kristen and Billy.”
Wiig is best known for her performances in Adventureland, Extract, Knocked Up, MacGruber, Bridesmaids, The Skeleton Twins, Ghostbusters, The Martian, Wonder Woman 1984, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, and more.
On the other hand, Murray is known for the 1984 Ghostbusters, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Broken Flowers, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Zombieland, among others.
