'Anchorman' director details near-fatal on-set incident involving Will Ferrell

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Will Ferrell faced quite the scare on the set of "Anchorman 2," according to the film's director Adam McKay. The two collaborated on "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" in 2013, following up on the film's successful 2004 predecessor.The two flicks followed fictional and outrageous newscaster Ron Burgundy, played by the famed "Saturday Night Live" alum.

(now ex-) friend Will Ferrell on the set of their 2013 comedy film, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”The “Don’t Look Up” director, 53, explained to the Hollywood Reporter in a profile about his career and was asked about his thoughts on “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ untimely death in October.

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Will Ferrell nearly died on the set of 2013’s “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.”

Over the past week or so, there have been multiple stories about the reasons behind the professional breakup of producing partners, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The duo created the popular production company, Gary Sanchez, to only eventually go their separate ways.

Plenty of ink has been spilled on the evolution (or, depending on who you’re talking to, de-evolution) of Adam McKay, who has gone from the “Saturday Night Live” writers room to the auteur of such likably goofy Will Ferrell vehicles as “Anchorman” and “Talladega Nights” to the Oscar-winning purveyor of message movies like “The Big Short” and “Vice.” His critics, and there are plenty of them, have accused McKay of committing the ultimate crime for a comic artist: taking himself too seriously,

With his Netflix satire Don’t Look Up, writer-director Adam McKay looked to address “the largest issue in the history of mankind”—that being the climate crisis, and the way people tend to either deny it is happening or refuse to acknowledge its “urgent and terrifying” weight.

Best friends aren’t always forever — just ask the celebrities who have said goodbye to their famous BFFs for one reason or another.

Big Short creator Adam McKay has detailed the breakup of both his Gary Sanchez Productions business and decades-long friendship with Anchorman and Step Brothers star Will Ferrell.

Alec Baldwin alleged that he did not pull the trigger on the gun that fired resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in a preview for his upcoming televised interview on Thursday night.

A collaboration for the ages. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have produced tons of comedy classics together, but their partnership — and their friendship — came to a halt in 2019.

Step Brothers and Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy.A statement was released in April that year that read: “The two of us will always work together creatively and always be friends. And we recognise we are lucky as hell to end this venture as such.”However, their relationship ended on more turbulent ground.“It ended not well,” McKay said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair.

“Funny or Die” and founded the company Gary Sanchez Productions. But seemingly out of the blue, the once dynamic duo announced they were ending their working relationship in 2019.

Will Ferrell may be one of Hollywood's most famous funnymen, but that doesn't mean he's exempt from showbiz drama.