Rob Schneider cast in crime drama Dead Wrong as indebted gambler and alcoholic lawyer By Pat Maio For Dailymail.Com Published: 00:08 GMT, 4 December 2021 | Updated: 00:08 GMT, 4 December 2021 Viewcomments Former Saturday Night Live comedian and actor Rob Schneider is joining the cast of crime drama Dead Wrong. The 58-year-old actor plays an indebted gambling and alcoholic lawyer in the movie that is set to be released in May 2022. According to Deadline, Schneider will star alongside Katrina Bowden, Joshua Britton, Chelsea Debo, Chet Hanks, Derek Smith, Rosalie Ward and Cress Williams. Deadbeat lawyer: Former Saturday Night Live comedian and actor Rob Schneider is joining the cast of crime drama Dead Wrong. The 58-year-old actor plays an alcoholic lawyer Dead Wrong is based on K.E. Clark's novel Deadly Instinct, published by Xilbris Corp. The film noir follows narcissist Billy Evans (played by Smith), who is blinded by jealousy of his rich mob boss friend (Hanks) with whom he wants to be like. The character played by Smith cooks up a wild scheme to steal back his son from his suicidal wife and keep a multi-million-dollar settlement from the hospital's insurance company. In carrying out this plot, Smith's character overwhelms the lives of several people around him, including his suicidal wife (Bowden), her nymphomaniacal sister (Debo), a gambling and alcoholic lawyer (Schneider), a bookmaker and murderer (Britton), an ex-con (Shields) seeking redemption from his innocent wife (Ward), and an insurance investigator (Williams). Unmasked: In October, Schneider was eliminated from the singing competition on the episode of the Masked Singer on Fox Writer and director Rick Bieber is currently producing the film in Los Angeles. Schneider rose to fame as a writer in the late 1980s with the long-running comedy show Saturday Night Live, later becoming part of the cast in the early 1990s. The three-time Emmy nominee has appeared in movies Surf Ninjas, The Beverly Hillbillies, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Demolition Man, and Down Periscope. Film noir: The movie is based on K.E. Clark's novel Deadly Instinct, published by Xilbris Corp He also appeared in the TV series Coach, and co-starred in the NBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly, an American take on the hit British series of the same name. In October, Schneider was eliminated from the singing competition on an episode of the Masked Singer on Fox. The comedian performed on the show as a giant Hamster and he sang Luis Miguel's 'Sabor A Mi' in Spanish for his performance. The Judge Dredge actor married television producer Patricia Azarcoya, 33, a decade ago, and has two daughters: Miranda Scarlett, 9, and Madeline Robbie, 5 Read more: Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility