With all the brand new remake movies making their debuts in theaters and incomes [false] reward or wretched opinions, there’s nonetheless one I’m completely happy to report is standing sturdy and prevented a remake [fail]: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. We, Jalopnik, celebrated the movie’s candy 16 birthday with somewhat tribute (and I had a tiny existential disaster for the remainder of the day). Within the following weeks, I’ve come throughout a number of gems associated to the comedy or coinciding with it, together with the one we’re speaking about in the present day.
In the course of the promotional press rounds and obligations for Talladega Nights, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, had been introduced on as company for the famed Larry King Reside on CNN. However the actors weren’t there as themselves. No, they appeared as Ricky Bobby and his greatest good friend, Cal Naughton, Jr. Already, it’s an odd setup, and it proceeds to get higher from there.
King goes on to ask Bobby (Farrell) concerning the problem he points to drivers in Talladega Nights, and proceeds to play a response from Dale Earnhardt Jr., taken on the movie’s premiere, the place he calls Bobby a “fruitcake” and that everybody noticed his psychological breakdown coming. Earnhardt Jr. calls in to the present later to roast Bobby. King additionally takes a name from the King, Richard Petty.
I can’t inform if it’s fully scripted, nevertheless it seems to be an awesome 45 minutes of improvisation from the comedy duo, asking about what they’d do in politics, and a horrible joke between Iraq and an IROC, all wrapped round teaser scenes from the movie for the precise promotion. It’s sensible.
Though I by no means wish to see this movie ever remade, I’d like to see an older Bobby and Naughton Jr. take again to the observe, or do retirement racing in IMSA or one thing.
