Will Ferrell has revealed that he was disappointed that Anchorman 2 didn't go ahead.
The project, which has been much talked about over the last few months, has been put on the backburner despite all of the cast expressing a desire to return.
Speaking to Collider he said: "Yeah, you know, it’s just tough right now to get movies made. It’s just weird because we were basically begged to for years and years like 'Would you guys ever do a sequel? Would you ever do a sequel?' and we finally kind of were feeling it because like every year that movie has sort of built and built and built.
"We warmed up to the idea and we were like 'That could actually be a lot of fun' and we got everyone together and then they were basically like 'Great! We can’t believe it! But you have to do it for this amount' and we were like 'Oh, well there’s no way we can do it for that!'
"You know, it’s hard to talk about budgets in Hollywood and not come off like... because it takes a lot of money to make a movie and even a small budget is a lot of money.
"So I don’t ever want to downplay that but if you’re getting myself, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and probably a bunch of other people who would line up to be in that movie, it’s going to cost a certain amount.
"But we also know we would cut everything to do it. So there really wasn’t a realistic way to do it. It was basically like 'Yeah! Do it for 20 dollars!' and we were like 'What?'
"So you don’t want to come off like... Anyway, right now it’s kind of like the ball is in their court, you know? You get mad at first then you get a little frustrated then you’re like 'Well, if its not meant to be then it’s not meant to be and we’ll go on and do something else' But, you know, I just think they come off looking strange."
2010 has been a quiet year for Ferrell on the movie front but he returns next month with comedy The Other Guys, which sees him reunite with Anchorman director Adam McKay.
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