{"id":8080,"date":"2010-05-03T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8080"},"modified":"2010-05-03T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:24:53","slug":"zoolander-sequels-future-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/03\/zoolander-sequels-future-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"ZOOLANDER Sequel&#8217;s Future In Doubt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Zoolander1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8081\" title=\"Zoolander1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Zoolander1-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Is Twitter becoming the new way for actors and directors to let fans know the status of their projects in development? It certainly seems that way.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of <strong>Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy<\/strong> writer\/director Adam McKay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/29\/anchorman-2-killed-by-paramount\/\" target=\"_blank\">tweeting<\/a> that Paramount had passed on a proposed sequel to that film, Ben Stiller made a cryptic comment on his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RedHourBen\/status\/13148715852\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter feed<\/a>, hinting that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/25\/justin-theroux-to-writedirect-zoolander-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-development sequel<\/a> to his 2001 comedy <strong>Zoolander<\/strong>, may have met a similar fate &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ron Burgundy and  Derek Zoolander looking to appear in sequels. Both men destitute,  without means or intellect to fund their own  comebacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what is it with Paramount these days? While <strong>Zoolander<\/strong> might not have the built in audience that <strong>Anchorman<\/strong> has, Stiller could definitely pull in much of the audience that helped his 2008 film <strong>Tropic Thunder<\/strong> earn $110 million at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute&#8230; There is a link between the two projects- Will Ferrell, who played the villainous fashion designer Mugato in <strong>Zoolander<\/strong>, rumored to return in the proposed sequel. (Stiller would show up in a small role in <strong>Anchorman<\/strong> a few years later.) Does someone at Paramount have a vendetta against Ferrell? Probably not, but what reason could Paramount have for passing on two potential moneymakers from well established comedy stars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Is Twitter becoming the new way for actors and directors to let fans know the status of their projects in development? It certainly seems that way. On the heels of Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/03\/zoolander-sequels-future-in-doubt\/\" title=\"ZOOLANDER Sequel&#8217;s Future In Doubt?\">[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":[242,24,1690,1133],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ben-stiller","8":"tag-sequel","9":"tag-will-farrell","10":"tag-zoolander"},"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\/8080","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=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}