I’m hoping the other commenters here realize it’s just Will Ferrell fucking around.
As 'Anchorman' Turn 20, Will Ferrell Recalls Reshoots After Poor Test Screenings – The film originally received a 50/100 score in its first test screening, forcing the film to get a new ending.
Submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to movies@lemm.ee
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/will-ferrell-anchorman-original-ending-1235023901/
lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
“The first version of ‘Anchorman’ is basically the movie ‘Alive,’ where the year is 1976, and we are flying to Philadelphia, and all the newsmen from around the country are flying in to have some big convention,” Ferrell said. “[My character] Ron convinces the pilot that he knows how to fly the charter jet, and he immediately crash-lands it in the mountains. And it’s just the story of them surviving and trying to get off the mountainside. They clipped a cargo plane, and the cargo plane crashed as well, close to them, and it was carrying only boxes of orangutans and Chinese throwing stars. So throughout the movie we’re being stalked by orangutans who are killing, one by one, the team off with throwing stars. And Veronica Corningstone keeps saying things like, ‘Guys, I know if we just head down we’ll hit civilization.’ And we keep telling her, ‘Wrong.’ She doesn’t know what we’re talking about. So that was the first version of the movie.”
This sounds hilarious. I know the cast of Anchorman could have made this one work.
iamericandre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Absolute gold
ghostface@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We had a successful movie about a bear high in cocaine killing ppl. They absolutely would of made it work.
To be honest that should be anchorman 3!
Neato@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
How the fuck did they change the movie so completely after test screenings?
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
The producer blew a conch and yelled “FILM CREW, ASSEMBLE!” and everyone got together to film the new scenes that the revised script called for.