“I thought everybody wanted this”: Ben Stiller Still Can’t Believe a Movie He Directed and Starred in 8 Years Ago Was Such a Horrible Catastrophe

Actor Ben Stiller directed and starred in 2016’s action-comedy movie Zoolander 2, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Justin Theroux, John Hamburg, and Nicholas Stoller. As the title suggested, the movie was a sequel to 2001’s Zoolander, and the majority of the cast from the first film returned for the sequel. [caption id="attachment_266442" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Zoolander 2[/caption] The movie opened to negative reviews from critics and the audience and was dubbed a box-office flop after it failed to perform. Zoolander 2 was reportedly dedicated to the co-creator the character of Derek Zoolander; Drake Sather,