{"id":1181050,"date":"2025-09-17T06:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/?p=1181050"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:31:20","slug":"anaconda-jack-black-paul-rudd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/anaconda-jack-black-paul-rudd\/","title":{"rendered":"In Anaconda, Paul Rudd and Jack Black Remake&#8230; Anaconda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ANACONDA \u2013 Official Trailer (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/az8M5Mai0X4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anaconda is the story of two middle-aged guys played by Paul Rudd and Jack Black who finally decide to fulfill a lifelong dream: remaking the &#8217;90s horror film Anaconda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When their hired anaconda dies, they go into the jungle in search of new snakes, and encounter a giant anaconda like the one in the movie <em>Anaconda<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We already love this movie. (If you can&#8217;t see the trailer above, treat yourself to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=az8M5Mai0X4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watching it here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film \u2014 which carries the tagline, &#8220;it&#8217;s the movie they&#8217;re dying to remake \u2014 comes from writer-director Tom Gormican, who previously did this sort of meta bring-the-movies-to-life thing with the very funny 2022 Nicolas Cage adventure <em>The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent<\/em>, which featured Cage playing himself and getting caught up in an adventure-filled faceoff with Pedro Pascal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Anaconda<\/em> also recalls the meta concept of another film in which Jack Black starred, Ben Stiller&#8217;s <em>Tropic Thunder<\/em>, in which a cadre of pretentious actors go to the jungle to film a war movie and quickly find themselves in the midst of very real violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background on <em>Anaconda<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Anaconda arrives on Christmas Day \u2014 why not? \u2014 and also stars \u200bSteve Zahn, \u200bThandiwe Newton, \u200bDaniela Melchior and \u200bSelton Mello.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a delightful nod to Sir Mix-a-Lot&#8217;s &#8220;Baby Got Back&#8221; \u2014 featuring the line &#8220;my anaconda don&#8217;t want none unless you got buns, hon&#8221; \u2014 the new Anaconda trailer features the opening riff of the song slowed down and played over and over again, like John Williams&#8217; theme for Stephen Spielberg&#8217;s <em>Jaws<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May we again editorialize? Brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intriguingly, the film has not yet been rated. So you can bet there are some interesting internal debates going on about just how graphic its snake attacks should be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original Anaconda, \u00a0released in 1997, was directed by Luis Llosa\u00a0and starred\u00a0Jennifer Lopez,\u00a0Ice Cube,\u00a0Jon Voight,\u00a0Eric Stoltz,\u00a0Jonathan Hyde, and\u00a0Owen Wilson. It also had a meta aspect: It was the story of a documentary film crew seeking a giant, legendary snake which they of course eventually find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It received so-so reviews but did well enough at the box office to become a cult classic and inspire several sequels. And many in the cast went on to become A-listers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also holds a proud place on our esteemed list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/deadly-animal-movies\/\">12 Killer Animal Movies That Used Real Animals<\/a>. Kudos, everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new film is co-written by Kevin Etten, who also co-wrote Ghosted and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, among other projects, and executive produced by Samson M\u00fccke. It is produced by Gormican, Etten, Brad Fuller \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200band Andrew Form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anaconda<em> arrives in theaters December 25 from Sony Pictures Entertainment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Main image: Paul Rudd and Jack Black in, you know, <\/em>Anaconda.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaconda is the story of two middle-aged guys played by Paul Rudd and Jack Black who finally decide to fulfill","protected":false},"author":1641,"featured_media":1181052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_comments":false,"cm_data":"","cpt_newsletter_id":0,"tpd_coauthor":[],"tpd_feed_delay":{"delay_type":"default"},"is_tpd_lists_single_post":false,"tpd_featured_posts_arr":"","tpd_franchise_content":"","hide_featured_img_single_post":false,"msn_featured_video":[],"_msn_custom_title":"","tpd_featured_video":[],"tpd_sponsored_post_logo":"","tpd_sponsored_post_logo_link":"","tpd_sponsored_post_logo_width":0,"tpd_sponsored_enable_nofollow":true,"tpd_disable_incontent_ads":false,"tpd_disable_right_rail_ads":false,"tpd_disable_after_content_ads":false,"tpd_disable_header_ads":false,"tpd_disable_sticky_footer_ads":false,"tpd_disable_video_ads":false,"tpd_disable_outbrain":false,"tpd_affiliate_disclaimer":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42129,6627,1256,7139],"coauthor":[],"feeds":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1181050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anaconda","9":"tag-jack-black","10":"tag-paul-rudd","11":"tag-remake"},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anaconda-Paul-Rudd-Jack-Black-428x241.jpg","fimg_url_thumb":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anaconda-Paul-Rudd-Jack-Black-428x241.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anaconda-Paul-Rudd-Jack-Black-788x444.jpg","author_name":"Tim Molloy","author_avatar":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1078-100x100.jpg","author_link":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/author\/tim-molloy\/","coauthors":[],"primary_category":{"term_id":11,"name":"Movie News","slug":"news","taxonomy":"category","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/category\/news\/"},"featured_img_medium":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anaconda-Paul-Rudd-Jack-Black-788x444.jpg","post_categories":["Movie News"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181050"},{"taxonomy":"coauthor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthor?post=1181050"},{"taxonomy":"feeds","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviemaker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feeds?post=1181050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}