McKay: It’s not happening, for sure, one-hundred percent. I’ll put it to bed. The only way it could come back [would be] in two years, three years, but to line everyone’s schedule up and to get everything done, and when it fell apart, to put that back together again your still talking about waiting. If I go do The Boys, that’s another two years, year and a half. You don’t know what people are doing when I get done with that. It’s a lot of work to line it up…But, oh well. Maybe it’s for the best. You don’t need sequels for everything. It was such a great experience doing that, but let it stand.
That pretty much does, right? It's one thing when the studio doesn't want to do it. Creators can always try shopping it elsewhere or even financing it themselves. In this case, it sounds like McKay has resigned himself to the fact that it isn't ever going to happen. I was no big fan of Anchorman, that's no secret, but that cast deserves every shot at being funny that it can get. McKay says the sequel would've been a musical. Seriously? A musical comedy set in the 1970s? I can see why Paramount passed.
