10 Awesome-Sounding Sequels That Will Never Happen

9. Step Brothers 2

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Step Brothers is one of the most popular studio comedies of the last decade, and possibly the most-widely quoted other than Anchorman, but it was by no means a runaway commercial success. The movie earned $128.1m at the box office, failing to even double the $65m budget. However, it found a massive following on home video, where sales totaled over $70m in the United States alone.

Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have all talked up a potential follow-up at various points over the last decade, but it will never happen. Comedy sequels are notoriously difficult to get right and that only becomes more difficult as time passes, something Anchorman 2 and Dumb and Dumber To will attest to. The main creative team would wisely rather leave the characters of Dale and Brennan alone than return to the well with inferior results.

McKay revealed in 2014 that he had an outline for a story, but this was before he was an Academy Award-winning writer and Best Director nominee that had kicked down the doors on a new stage of his career. With Ferrell and Reilly now into their 50's, it seems that the ship has well and truly sailed for more gleefully stupid antics and hilariously childish hijinks. At least we'll always have the f**king Catalina Wine Mixer.

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