Comedian Will Ferrell is close to sealing a deal to revive his on-screen anchorman Ron Burgundy in a sequel to his hit 2004 film, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
“The odds are good. We’re going to talk to all the guys next week – Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd and everybody else – to see if it’s feasible to do it, because everybody’s at different places right now, with totally different schedules,” Will says.
“Hopefully we can start filming in a couple of years.”
Former Saturday Night Live funnyman Will Ferrell will be the first guest to sit on The Tonight Show sofa when Conan O’Brien takes over hosting duties on June 1, NBC announced on Monday.
Veteran rockers Pearl Jam will be the first musical guest.
Will also appeared on the final Late Night with Conan O’Brien in February.
Will Ferrell’s President Bush offered his political “strategery” to Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin on the primetime edition of Saturday Night Live Thursday night.
“But before I leave, I wanted to help Sarah Palin and John McCain by giving them what every candidate wants most. A primetime, heavily publicized, network endorsement from George W. Bush.”
Comedians Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly joined Meredith Viera on The Today Show Tuesday for a chat about their new film Step Brothers, opening this Friday.
Comedians Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell have been cast to appear in a new comedy based on the classic Sherlock Holmes franchise. Columbia Pictures has greenlit a film, currently in pre-production, that will feature the Borat comic (Sacha Baron Cohen) as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Ferrell as Watson, Holmes’ partner is crime-solving, Variety reported Wednesday.
