Will Ferrell is the Flamingo Thief

Variety says Will Ferrell will star in Flamingo Thief, an adaptation of Susan Trott's dramedy novel of the same name at Red Hour Films. Ferrell stars as Tim Forrester, a lawyer who gets obsessive about stealing figurines of pink flamingos after his wife leaves him. You, Me and Dupree writer Michael LeSieur has adapted for the screen but no director is yet set. Flamingo Thief ended up on the 2011 Black List. Red Hour principals Ben Stiller and Stuart Confeld are producing with Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment after Erica Steinburg brought the property to the Indie outfit. As well as his outrageous comedies, Ferrell is often drawn to these kind of melancholy dramedies. He recently starred in Everything Must Go, another indie project like this about a man who was suffering after his wife left him and was based on Dan Rush's 2008 Black List screenplay. Ferrell next stars in said outrageous comedies; the March released Case de mi Padre and Jay Roach's political themed election comedy Dog Fight, opposite Zach Galifianakis in August.