“Baxter, is that you? Bark twice if you’re in Milwaukee. Is this Wilt Chamberlain? Have the decency to say something.”
Have the decency to say something, indeed. So what the hell is the status of a sequel to “The Legend of Ron Burgundy”? We’ve heard conflicting reports. The prospects of “Anchorman 2” was thought to be scuttled when director Adam Mckay took to Twitter to announce that Paramount had passed on the project, while we heard yesterday that the studio is interested… however, they just want to make the film at a bargain-basement price of $40 million dollars (difficult with all those stars and sequel ambition).
So, what does Mr. Burgundy have to say about all this? Well, Will Ferrell spoke to EW today and he’s apparently still hopeful and thinks this isn’t the end of the story, but he is slightly confused to Paramount reaction so far.
“It’s a little peculiar. On the one hand, [we were] being begged to do a sequel for such a long time, and then we finally came up with a concept that we liked, we talked to all the guys, and everyone was up for it. And then to get the reaction we got, yeah, it’s slightly puzzling to us. But you know what? It’s also their money. They get to do or not do whatever they want. So we’ll see. We’re still going back and forth. Maybe there is a solution. Or, I know in talking to Adam, if it never happens, then it never happens. And that’s fine, too. So we’ll just see.”
We honestly love their, “hell, no skin off our backs if it doesn’t happen,” approach. Push the sequel forward if you can creatively do what you want. If not, fuck it. It’s just not worth bringing a compromised effort to the screen (please remember The Playlist put this masterpiece in their Best Films of 2004 Top 10).
But Ferrell realizes the strange economic climate right now and how those fears, concerns and issues might eventually blow over (hopefully right around the time 3D fades away).
“We’re in such a weird kind of time right now in terms of the studios and where they want to put their money or not,” he said. “Yeah. You never know. They may circle back. It’s always a negotiation, even if it’s a ‘No.’ You just never know. Six months from now, they could have some movies fall apart and their slate is a little light, and, like, ‘Hey, let’s revisit that.’ So we’ll just kind of keep moving on, see what happens.”
Right, so in the meantime, as we assumed, it’s kind of a wait and see stalemate game and we don’t expect much to change. In the meantime, we’ll be working on getting a deep burn in our ubulus muscle which of course connects to the upper dorcinus. Stay classy in the interim.