'Anchorman 2' director Adam McKay hints at plot details
The subject of 听has been bouncing around Hollywood for years, but it was just a few weeks ago that Ron Burgundy himself, Will Ferrell, to announce that he and Paramount had reached a deal to bring the suave San Diego newsman back for a sequel.
听Today, we have Anchorman director 鈥� and frequent Will Ferrell collaborator 鈥� Adam McKay talking about the sequel film, with a few hints about what鈥檚 in store for Ron and the Channel 4 News Team鈥檚 new adventure.
Well, first off, we went and did some other movies; that was the initial delay. By the time we heard from enough fans and heard enough of the demand for a sequel, it had been a few years. We went to the studio and they kind of weren鈥檛 into it initially. They said the original one made pretty good money, but for what it made we鈥檒l give you this and this, and it was a very low budget. We would have all been working for free to do it.
We were playing with the idea of doing 鈥淪tepbrothers 2鈥� or another original movie. And just at the last second I said, go check in with them again and see if it鈥檚 just 100 percent dead. And, crazy luck, a movie had fallen through for them, their view on it had kind of changed and that was it.
Regarding how the modern media is now even more of a reflection of all that听Anchorman sought to mock:
Part of what inspired the movie was just how ridiculous the news had become. It was all ratings driven. The people were getting better and better looking. The weather women were getting outrageously beautiful. It was all about the voice and the hair.
Since we made the movie it鈥檚 gone even more so in that direction. We talk about all these anchormen on the air now and they鈥檙e all kind of Ron Burgundy-esque guys. So yes, sadly, the character has gotten more and more relevant as the news has gotten to be nothing more than a ratings-driven profit machine鈥he ridiculousness of 鈥淎nchorman鈥� got less and less observed.
In regards to what Anchorman 2听might be about:
I don鈥檛 want to give away too much, but I鈥檒l just give a couple pieces of ideas that we鈥檝e kicked around. Keep in mind we鈥檙e still writing the story, but I鈥檒l say one phrase for you: custody battle. I鈥檒l give you that. I鈥檒l give you one other one: bowling for dollars.
Personally, I tend to use Anchorman as my personal barometer for where people鈥檚 comedic sensibilities lie. I thought the movie was hilarious the very first time I saw it; others were brought in by home video / cable viewings of the film. Since that time, The Legend of Ron Burgundy听has grown to be, well, 鈥渓egendary鈥� (at least in a cult-following sort of way). I welcome a sequel with open arms, and truly hope that early reports that the setting will be moved up to the 1980s era are true 鈥� there is so much skewering of that era still to be done.
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