

Along with his dog Baxter, he reassembles his friends and news team Champ Kind, Brian Fantana, and Brick Tamland. After being fired from SeaWorld and botching a suicide attempt, Burgundy accepts a job offered to him by Freddie Shapp with GNN, the world's first 24-hour news network, for the station's official launch. Six months later, Burgundy is back in San Diego, barely able to hold a job due to depression. Burgundy grows jealous of Corningstone's success and storms out of the house, leaving her and their 6-year-old son Walter. He promotes Corningstone, making her the first female nightly news anchor in the history of television, and fires Burgundy due to his continuously sloppy performance on air. One day, Mack Tannen, the most famous nightly news anchor in New York, reveals that he is retiring. In 1979, Ron Burgundy and Veronica Corningstone are married and co-anchors for a prestigious news network in NYC. It received generally positive reviews and grossed $173 million worldwide on a $50 million budget. The Legend Continues was released on December 18, 2013.

Unlike the first film, the film is distributed by Paramount Pictures instead of DreamWorks Pictures. However, in March 2012, Ferrell officially announced the film was in production and filming began in March 2013. ĭevelopment for the film began as early as 2008, but Paramount Pictures turned down the proposed sequel. Harrison Ford, Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Meagan Good, and Dylan Baker all join the cast. As with the original film, it is directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow, written by McKay and Will Ferrell, and stars Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Christina Applegate, all reprising their roles from the first film. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is a 2013 American comedy film and the sequel to the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
