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UPDATE: This news was confirmed today with a press release:
Legendary newscaster Ron Burgundy announced today that a teaser trailer for “Anchorman 2″ will appear exclusively on “The Dictator,” beginning at midnight tomorrow.
Said Burgundy in a tweet, “I don’t know what a teaser trailer is either but they say you all will. When did the world get so crazy? I’m having a scotch.”
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Oh my God Oh my God, remember that one movie we all saw??? Don’t you wish we could go back to there? I want to go back to there.
A teaser trailer for “Anchorman 2″ will appear in front of Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming comedy “The Dictator,” which opens next Wednesday, May 16th. Confirmed? Nope.
How’s that, you say? “Anchorman 2″ hasn’t even been written let alone shot or edited? Correct, all this is true, but the rumor for weeks now has been that “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” director and co-writer Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and his ‘Anchorman 2′ cohorts would be shooting some kind of brief teaser-trailer for the film to land in front of Cohen’s subversive political comedy [Editor's note: The Dictator is not a subversive political comedy].
While Paramount won’t confirm it (or even reply to emails about the subject), it feels like several people have vocalized or shown medium-sized bits of evidence of what most of us already know. This is truly happening (getting Will in hair, make-up and costume isn’t difficult as evinced by the recent Conan O’Brien appearance). [ThePlaylist]
So in case you needed a reason to see The Dictator (and I’m guessing you did, because it looks wildly mediocre), now you have it, a teaser for Anchorman 2. Which won’t be actual footage from the movie, just some stuff they shot specifically as a teaser. So I guess it’ll be more like an Anchorman-themed Funny or Die video. And Will Ferrell owns Funny or Die, so you’ll probably be able to watch it there too. And I’ll probably embed it here. Okay, okay, you twisted my arm, you can probably just stay home from the movie altogether and keep reading this website. Does it make you feel better, knowing my secrets like that? You’re a real piece of work, you know that.
Released in 1974, Uptown Saturday Night told the story of two blue collar dudes played by Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier who get robbed at an uptown night club, only to find out one of them had a winning lottery ticket in his wallet. They go on a chase to get it back, wackiness ensues. Now Anchorman director Adam McKay is in negotiations to direct a remake, starring Denzel Washington and Will Smith, which seems silly because Bow Wow and Ice Cube already remade this movie and it was called Lottery Ticket.
Overbrook Entertainment has been developing the project. Tim Dowling wrote the most recent draft.
The idea is for McKay to helm the film after he completes a sequel to Anchorman, the Will Ferrell-starrer that Paramount has set for an early 2013 start and 2014 release.
There are plenty of remakes that elicit groans. If this package comes together (Smith and Washington have long wanted to work together), with McKay’s comic sensibility, this redo could be exceptional. The original cast was lined with the likes of Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson and Richard Pryor, and the remake could follow suit by star-casting the supporting roles. [Deadline]
Yes, that’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that squeaky clean Will Smith wouldn’t even do Quentin Tarantino’s movie, and if his production company is the one writing and developing this, I have hard time imagining it being anything but incredibly milquetoast. Not to mention, all of Adam McKay’s movies so far have leaned heavily on the improv skills of people like Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who are basically the best in the world at improv, whereas Denzel Washington and Will Smith are actors who are kind of funny sometimes. And this is neither here nor there, but I really wish there was an Urban Dictionary definition for a “Harry Belafonte.”
Hairy Belafonte is Kimbo Slice’s porn name.
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Holy crap - is that Bad Ass Billy Gunn?
This news is a few days old, but it’s developing quickly and we had a little too much moonshine at the Uproxx Weiner Eating Contest so you’ll deal with it. Adam McKay has decided that instead of just producing Will Ferrell’s next project, Three Mississippi, he’s going to direct it with the hopes of again capitalizing off of the successful chemistry between Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, as the two will star as rivals from different families that gather annually for a tackle football game.
The ensemble comedy’s script comes from 30 Rock executive producer Robert Carlock and Friends executive producer Scott Silveri. It follows two neighboring families as they do battle in an annual Thanksgiving game of front-lawn tackle football that’s grown increasingly nasty over the years. (Friends fans may recall a similarly intense Thanksgiving-set football happening.)
McKay had already been aboard the project as a producer, but told EW that he wasn’t planning on directing it. Now we hear he’s making it his next project, and that Warners hopes to have it in theaters come next Thanksgiving. (Vulture)
The name of this film was originally Turkey Bowl, but they presumably changed it because Kevin Smith just released his own film called Turkey Bowl, and I assume it’s about a 12-layered dish that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Three Mississippi will also star Alec Baldwin as Wahlberg’s father and I’m sure they’ll have someone equally established as Ferrell’s father, a la James Caan or Robert Duvall. In fact, I’ll predict that Ferrell’s father is either Robert DeNiro or Clint Eastwood, unless he’d like to leave Pink Cadillac as his final comedic performance. And I’m sure they’ll have some hot actresses playing their wives, adorable and quirky children, hilarious cameos, funny accents, loud shouting, and I’ll ultimately leave this movie thinking, “How the hell is it so difficult for you, Sandler?”
Yo, son, these classic fairy tales are like hella boring! HOLLYWOOD, DROP SOME PHAT BEATS ON THIS BITCH!
The studio is on the cusp of triggering production on the Gary Sanchez project Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, a dark action movie that picks up with the fairy tale siblings years after the traumatic childhood incident has turned them into bounty hunters. Jeremy Renner, who has been attached for some time, finally has his sister in James Bond babe Gemma Arterton.
Director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) is hoping to begin shooting the project in Berlin March 7. [THR]
They say “dark action movie”, but Gary Sanchez is Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, and Tommy Wirkola made a movie about nazi zombies that puke blood, so I’m hoping the secret is that this is tongue in cheek or overtly comedic. Otherwise, look for this tale to LOSE THE FAIRIES AND ADD RAP ROCK! Yo, Gretel, drop some Red Bulls on the ground so we can find our way back from BASE jumping, TICK TICK TICK… SLUTS!
Play us out, parkour dog.
