It might not have been a massive box office success after earning a respectable $90m against a $26m budget, but Anchorman almost instantly found a second life on home video to become one of the defining comedies of the 2000s, and for a while you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing somebody quoting one of the many eccentric characters.
Given the continued popularity of the original, talks about a sequel continued for years before the gang finally got back together almost a decade later for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. Unfortunately, the follow-up missed the mark and failed to recapture the magic, marking the latest in a long line of disappointing late-arriving comedy sequels.
A third installment wouldn’t face anywhere near as much trouble as its predecessor in escaping from development hell after The Legend Continues doubled the box office gross of the first outing, but despite rumors popping up every now and again it seemed as though the core creative team had moved on.
However, we’ve now heard from our sources – the same ones that told us Paramount would be rebooting the Transformers franchise and both Now You See Me 3 and National Treasure 3 are in development, all of which were correct – that the studio are now trying to get a new Anchorman movie up and running, and they expect the majority of the main players to return.
According to our intel, despite director Adam McKay branching out into dramatic territory where he’s since won an Academy Award and been nominated a further four times, Paramount believe they can convince him to return along with the rest of the ensemble. Will Ferrell would no doubt be an easy sell given that he’s still happy to keep playing a screaming man-child in almost all of his movies, but co-stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd seem to have been making a conscious effort to stay away from broad studio comedies in recent years, on the big screen at least.
Ron Burgundy remains one of the most iconic comedy creations of the 21st Century, and while the last movie veered a little too far into self-indulgent territory, a lot of fans would be more than happy to see Anchorman‘s news team assemble one more time.
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