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"David Koechner has said he is shocked that Anchorman 2 will actually be produced. The actor, who will reprise his role as Champ Kind in the film, revealed that Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay had all but given up on Anchorman 2 weeks before it was greenlighted.   &amp;quot;They were getting ready to go into Step Brothers 2. And then Adam McKay said, &amp;#039;You know what? Before we do that, let&amp;#039;s just take one more run at Paramount for doing Anchorman 2&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Koechner recalled. &amp;quot;And they did - and it came together in a week.&amp;quot; Koechner also admitted he is anxious to begin filming Anchorman 2, which will go into production early next year. &amp;quot;There was a time when [Anchorman 2] was definitely going, two years before [now] - and then it was off. So, you hope, but you didn&amp;#039;t want to hope too much,&amp;quot; he told The Huffington Post. &amp;quot;And, even now, it doesn&amp;#039;t start shooting until February. You know, it seems a little unreal. Almost like when we were shooting it, it didn&amp;#039;t seem real.&amp;quot; Anchorman 2 director McKay recently revealed that the film will satirise the diversity of the news business in the late 1970s. Steve Carell and Paul Rudd will both reunite with Ferrell and Koechner in Anchorman 2. Watch Will Ferrell announce Anchorman 2 on Conan below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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