Milk may have been a bad choice for Ron Burgundy, but it was a very, very good decision by longtime comedy partners Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to collaborate in 2004 on “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” Now, the duo are wise enough to finally be working out plans for a sequel –- so wise in fact, that they’re like little Buddhas, covered in hair.
“We have an idea, we love it, we’ve talked to the cast and they all love it,” writer/producer/director McKay revealed recently, giving us news we love more than lamp. “It’s all about the scheduling now.”
Echoing the recent statements of his producing partner Judd Apatow, McKay left open the possibility that Ron, Champ, Brian, Brick and the rest of the gang could be glimpsed at a different time in their lives. Rather than making them elderly, McKay seemed to like the idea of an '80s news team staying classy in San Diego. Read more...
Aren’t direct sequels so overrated? Who wants to see what happens immediately after a hit movie anyway? Here’s a better idea: revisit a movie’s characters way, way down the line, when they’ve become old people. It’s kind of been done before. Look at “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”! But what if it didn’t have to take decades to deliver such a sequel?
This might actually be the concept behind the somewhat planned follow-up to “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” according to producer Judd Apatow. In an interview with Empire, he said that a sequel is now being discussed more seriously than it had been a year ago. We already knew that Will Ferrell met with creative minds from the first film earlier this year, but now it sounds like the next steps are being taken. Read more...
"Anchorman 2" just inched one meeting closer to becoming a reality. Somewhere in the mix of appearing on the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, promoting next week's summer comedy "Land of the Lost" on "Behind the Screen", and getting ready for the release of his next film, "The Goods," Ferrell managed to wedge in a meeting with the creative minds behind 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy." Re-assembling the film's all-star news team, which included Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Christina Applegate, probably won't be easy, but the gears sound like they are finally in motion.
Ferrell told an Australian radio DJs Jono & Dano that he'll be meeting with "all the guys" from the first "Anchorman" next week to "figure out when and how" to map out the sequel, according to a report on JoBlo.com. Read more...
You might have heard: Paul Rudd is sort of a big deal these days, popping up in a bunch of new movies and even more online rumors, like the recently slimed “Ghostbusters” sequel – a sequel which, if it ever happened, would probably never live up to the original, he said (you can check out our full interview with Rudd here).
But 60% of the time, sequels work every time. Could “Anchorman 2” actually be one of those rare films to surpass the original? Only if they’re prepared to take the insanity of the first one and somehow surpass it, Rudd insisted. (And I promise I’m done with the “Anchorman” quotes).
“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.” Read more...
