{"id":16963,"date":"2011-10-27T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16963"},"modified":"2011-10-27T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T21:51:35","slug":"stiller-teases-another-zoolander-sequel-tidbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/27\/stiller-teases-another-zoolander-sequel-tidbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiller Teases Another ZOOLANDER Sequel Tidbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/zoolander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1981\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/zoolander-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Even if Universal seems to have no enthusiasm for making a sequel to the 2001 comedy <strong>Zoolander<\/strong>, the film\u2019s writer, director and star Ben Stiller continues to talk up the proposed project.<\/p>\n<p>In a profile to be published in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/ben-stiller-zoolander-tower-heist-eddie-murphy-253286\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, Stiller talks about the sequel and let slip one new story detail. &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The story will pick up 10 years after the first film left off and, Derek\u2019s &#8220;School For Kids Who Can\u2019t Read Good&#8221; has been destroyed, leaving him in charge of its pupil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stiller isn\u2019t deterred that Universal has been balking at getting the film into production, even though he states that they have gone through \u201cmaybe 20, 30 [script] drafts\u201d for the film. His 2008 hit <strong>Tropic Thunder<\/strong> bounced around in development for the better part of a decade, going through numerous drafts before it went into production. Stiller has been collaborating on the <strong>Zoolander 2<\/strong> script with his <strong>Tropic Thunder<\/strong> co-writer Justin Theroux.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure that fans of the first <strong>Zoolander<\/strong>, and I count myself among them, are glad that Stiller has not given up on bringing us another story featuring the dimwitted but well intentioned male super model Derek Zoolander. The character\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/10\/ben-stiller-brings-derek-zoolander-to-snl\/\" target=\"_blank\">appearance on<\/a> the recent <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> episode that Stiller hosted was a highlight of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Even if Universal seems to have no enthusiasm for making a sequel to the 2001 comedy Zoolander, the film\u2019s writer, director and star Ben Stiller continues to talk up the proposed project. In a profile <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/27\/stiller-teases-another-zoolander-sequel-tidbit\/\" title=\"Stiller Teases Another ZOOLANDER Sequel Tidbit\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[242,1133,4390],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ben-stiller","8":"tag-zoolander","9":"tag-zoolander-2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16963"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}