Over the weekend I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with writer/director Adam McKay and producer Judd Apatow about Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, the upcoming sequel to the 2004 comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
The film follows San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), who returns to the news desk in “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” Also back for more are Ron’s co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) – All of whom won’t make it easy to stay classy…while taking New York’s first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Here is what McKay and Apatow had to say about the sequel.
In the first one the parody was local news and in this one it’s all about...
The film follows San Diego’s top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), who returns to the news desk in “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” Also back for more are Ron’s co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) – All of whom won’t make it easy to stay classy…while taking New York’s first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Here is what McKay and Apatow had to say about the sequel.
In the first one the parody was local news and in this one it’s all about...
- 12/17/2013
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
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