Adam McKay spoke recently about taking over writing duties from Edgar Wright on Marvel’s Ant-Man, but one movie that he gets asked about a lot (now that they’ve done Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues) is a sequel to 2005’s Step Brothers. And by the sounds of things, we won’t be seeing it any time soon:
“We have a whole story, an outline, that we’re happy with,” McKay said. “We were ready to go, and you know the story of [how] we got the call on Anchorman 2. We’re not gonna do it now ‘cause we just did a sequel, I don’t wanna get into the sequel business too much.”
“It was kind of a novelty to do one of them and it was certainly very interesting and I had never done anything like it,” he continues. “So I want to go make some original movies—or you know, The Big Short is an adaptation but do some different stuff. But who knows? Two to three years, three to four years. I mean the funny thing with Step Brothers is if those guys are in their 50’s it still works, so we could easily return to that, but for now no sequels.”
Would you like to see Step Brothers 2? Or was one movie enough?
Originally published October 24, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
