

Derek and Matilda have a son named Derek Zoolander Jr., who has already developed his first modeling look. A few years later, Derek, Hansel, and Maury start "The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too". In Derek's rural hometown, his father Larry watches the event on television, and proudly acknowledges Derek as his son. Mugatu then attempts to kill the Prime Minister himself by throwing a shuriken, but Derek stops it by unleashing his ultimate model look, "Magnum". Despite Hansel bringing the computer with him and smashing the computer on the floor (which he does out of taking Matilda's words of the files being in the computer literally), Maury admits to the conspiracy. This activates Derek's mental programming, only for it to stop after Hansel breaks into the DJ booth and shuts off the turntable. Derek and Hansel break into Maury's office to find evidence of the assassination plot, but they cannot operate his computer to find them.ĭerek goes to the runway, and Mugatu's disc jockey plays a remix version of "Relax". Derek, Hansel, and Matilda bond, the two male models resolving their differences while partaking of Hansel's collection of narcotics and participating in group sex with Matilda and others. They go to Hansel's home, the last place they believe Mugatu will think to look. Mugatu's cronies attack the group, forcing Derek and Matilda to flee. Kennedy and the brainwashed models are soon killed after they have completed their task. Prewett reveals that the fashion industry has been behind several of history's political assassinations, including Abraham Lincoln and John F. Prewett, Matilda and Derek meet him in a cemetery. After receiving info through calls from former hand model J.P. She tells her concerns to Derek, but he ignores her. Matilda Jeffries, feeling responsible for Derek's downfall as she wrote a critical Time article about him, becomes suspicious of Mugatu's offer. It involves Derek being conditioned to attempt the assassination when the song " Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is played. Mugatu hires Derek, whom he normally doesn't work with, to star in the next runway show for his brainwashing plan. Meanwhile, fashion mogul Jacobim Mugatu and Derek's agent Maury Ballstein are charged by the fashion industry with finding a model who can be brainwashed into assassinating the new progressive-leaning Prime Minister of Malaysia, whose policies will prohibit them from retaining cheap child labor in the country.

In New York City, male model Derek Zoolander is at a low point he is ousted as the top male fashion model by the rising star Hansel, his roommates and colleagues are killed in a "freak gasoline-fight accident", and an attempt to reconnect with his southern New Jersey working class relatives ends with the family rejecting him. An animated series, Zoolander: Super Model, was released on Netflix UK in August 2016.

A sequel, Zoolander 2, was released in February 2016, to negative reviews. After Derek reconciles with the competing male model Hansel ( Owen Wilson), the three try to stop the Prime Minister's assassination from happening.Ī satire on the fashion industry, the film received mixed reviews from critics, though it was a box office success. Through much research, journalist Matilda Jeffries ( Christine Taylor) becomes aware of the planned assassination and informs Derek about it. Meanwhile, Zoolander has several personal and career issues, including declining popularity, disappointment in his career choice from his family, and trying to find his true purpose which he suspects is not being a model. Mugatu and Ballstein plan to brainwash Zoolander into killing him. In the film, top people in the fashion industry, Jacobim Mugatu ( Will Ferrell) and Derek's agent Maury Ballstein ( Jerry Stiller), are hired by other executives to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia (Woodrow Asai), who will pass progressive laws that would harm their businesses. It is the last film from Paramount Pictures with the involvement of Village Roadshow Pictures. The earlier short films and this film feature Derek Zoolander (Stiller), a dimwitted supermodel.

The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 19. Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller.
