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Will Ferrell Says Anchorman Changed Kidnapping Ending: ‘We Just Lost the Audience’

Will Ferrell says the ending of his 2004 hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy had to be changed at the last minute

But Ferrell, who starred as new anchor Ron Burgundy and co-wrote the script with director Adam McKay, says they realized later that they may have taken a few too many liberties with the movie when audiences did not resonate at all with the original ending. You know, it either — there’s a panic button that’s hit, or, luckily, the studio was like, ‘let’s just, we’ll figure it out.’ And they gave us budget for reshoot and that, you know, and [producer] Judd [Apatow] really helped to be like a steady hand in that regard. But after he begins a sexual relationship with Applegate’s fellow news-anchor character Veronica Corningstone, she becomes more popular than him on air, creating a rivalry between them.The movie was followed by asequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, in 2013.

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