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‘Stay Classy, Portland’: 7 Film and TV Projects That Bailed on Their Original Settings

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Tim Molloy

Anchorman

Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) in Anchorman, originally set in Portland. Credit: Dreamworks Pictures

Pop over to the terrific screenwriting site StudioBinder and you can download this early draft of the Anchorman script by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Many things remained the same from script to screen — Ferrell’s McKay is pretty pleased with himself in both versions — and a few cosmetic changes are obvious.

But one of the biggest changes is that the script is set in Portland, Oregon. That means none of the film’s jokes about the origins of San Dee-ah-go’s name appear. Sorry, whales.

But we also never got to hear Ron Burgundy say, “Stay classy, Portland.”

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Tim Molloy

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