Zoolander 2 facing the same minor $30 million problem as Anchorman sequel
As an addendum to last week’s reports from Adam McKay that an Anchorman sequel is dead in the musky water, Paramount “insiders” are now claiming that the studio would like to make the film after all, but only if McKay and Co. can do it for $40 million—as opposed to the $70 million “lowered” budget they had offered. Caught up in this same numbers game: Ben Stiller’s proposed sequel to Zoolander, which handsome-actor-turned-successful-screenwriter-turned-every-unloved-blogger-dude’s-object-of-jealous-scorn Justin Theroux was said to be working on earlier this year. Stiller himself took to Twitter not long after McKay’s mournful lowing, saying, “Ron Burgundy and Derek Zoolander looking to appear in sequels. Both men destitute, without means or intellect to fund their own comebacks.”