'Anchorman 2' Would Have Been a Broadway Musical

That Anchorman sequel Paramount refuses to fund? Director and co-writer Adam McKay says it was going to be a musical. He tells CHUD, "We were going to do four months on Broadway and then jump right into filming." So, yes, the sequel would have been a stage show first, then a film, and Paramount didn't want to spend the $60 million to get it made, citing computer models that tell the studio under which circumstances a project may or may not make money. And that tells you all you need to know about Paramount, I guess. Actually, I may be too quick to judge the Mountain; it's put out some decent stuff lately, but seriously, you consult a computer? Why not just let a computer write the damn scripts, then? Anyway, that was the hook, although we don't know exactly what the plot would have been. McKay seems fine with it, though, acknowledging that the sequel probably wouldn't have lived up to the original (or the hype) and noting that he's still working with Paramount on other projects. He also downplayed the idea of just doing the stage show, because Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and David Koechner wouldn't get much money out of it and it's a lot of work. But maybe they could do a one-time only stage performance and put it on HBO or something. There's an idea.

Comments

[Will]

More Tom Cruise. More Mission: Impossible.

The Computer says so.

And more MacGruber.

The Computer hath willed it...

[KXB]

I thought computers already wrote most of the scripts these days ;(...

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