There’s been a lot of back and forth over the possibility of a sequel to Anchorman, but a couple months back director Adam McKay dashed the hopes of fans when he said (via Twitter) that Paramount had passed on the project. That would seem to have been the last word on the subject.
I still wouldn’t work up a lot of hope that anything will change there, but McKay is now saying that the studio at least heard the pleas of fans for a sequel, and suggests that there might be some effect down the road. Read More »
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We’ve talked about the possibility of an Anchorman sequel for quite some time, and early this year it seemed like the film had a chance to see the light of day. But Paramount passed, and now director Adam McKay offers both the final word (more than likely) on the sequel, and teases a detail that might make you mourn it just a little bit more. Read More »
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy director Adam McKay just revealed on twitter that Paramount Pictures has officially passes on making an Anchorman 2, even after they did a massive cut to the project’s budget.
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There has been a lot of talk over the years about the potential for Anchorman 2. It has often seemed like something that would never happen, despite the fact that most of the players involved in the first film all appear game to do it again. Now director Adam McKay says it’s really about Paramount writing a a check. If the studio did that, they’d be ready to go. Read More »
UPDATE: The quotes in the story below have apparently been around for a while, so if you’re looking for the latest Anchorman 2 denial, this isn’t it. I’m leaving the story since obviously they’re new to some of us, but don’t take this as the final word on the film. Original article follows.
You more or less had to figure this is the way things were going to end up, but just in case you were really holding out hope for another Anchorman movie, probably best to let it go. While a sequel to Adam McKay and Will Ferrell‘s anarchic newsroom farce has seemed like a vague possibility, Ferrell is now saying that it isn’t likely to happen, because getting everyone together in the same room is much more difficult than it used to be. Read More »
We’ve been hearing about a possible Anchorman sequel for the last year. Most of the original cast members and creative team have expressed interest in making a sequel, but with the popularity of the film’s three main stars on the rise, I’ve pessimistically ruled it off as a possibility.
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Or the ’80s. Music Television chatted with Paul Rudd—you get a free Rudd if you make a movie—about the possibilities for Adam McKay‘s Anchorman 2. Yeah, it’s probably happening. It seems the filmmakers have considered strapping the 2004 film’s mustachioed love of the absurd to a rocket…
“Last I heard they were starting to write it and they were thinking about setting it in the eighties,” Rudd said. “[But] I know when we were shooting it [director] Adam [McKay] said if they ever did something it would have to be really weird like we were on the moon or something. I think it has to go even further if it was to work.”
Rudd added that Will Ferrell might be interested in an intergalactic newscast as well, or maybe the entire space idea was an inside joke. I asked my laptop for the truth but it was too busy downloading the entire Gogol Bordello discography against my wishes. Would you rather see Ron Burgundy take on boom mics in the Me Decade or ride the Mars Rover after a few too many color ‘tinis? Slashfilm’s answer? The ’80s are a tad played out. Outer Space is the place and it’s okay if the Chewbacca masks are priiitty shitty.
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Judd Apatow once predicted that a sequel to Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy would make for a juicy movie…in 30 years. However, the film’s director, Adam McKay, recently told Collider that moviegoers won’t have to wait for Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner to sprout massive liver spots, four divorces a piece and a scrapbook of mug shots before a second helping of ‘stache fills up theaters…
“I’m looking to do another movie, I might do this other movie called Channel 3 Billion which is kind of this science fiction/Brazil type comedy. Then after that, Will and I are like let’s do Anchorman 2…so you’re talking like 2 years maybe we’ll do it. But we’re going to do it, for sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re dying to do it. Unless we can’t get the cast together, which is always kind of a tricky thing. But, I think, with that cast we’re all friends, so yeah, we want to do it.”
Personally, I’d still like to see a sequel in which the main characters are aged 70 and gloriously smashed on the rocks of time. Stretch the wise-ass sarcasm and free association in a new direction, maybe hire Ernie Hudson. What would you like to see from an Anchorman 2?
