Will Ferrell turned down ‘Elf’ sequel and a $29 Million payday
“I’d have needed to promote the film from an trustworthy place, which might’ve been, like, ‘Oh no, it is not good. I simply could not flip down that a lot cash,'” Ferrell instructed THR. “And I assumed, ‘Can I really say these phrases? I do not assume I can, so I assume I can not do the film.'”
“Elf” follows Ferrell’s Buddy the Elf as he leaves the North Pole and makes an attempt to seek out his organic father in New York Metropolis. The film, directed by Jon Favreau, has turn into a vacation basic.
Ferrell stated way back he wouldn’t do a sequel. In 2013, he appeared on Bravo’s “Watch What Occurs Reside,” the place he defined why. “It could look barely pathetic if I attempted to squeeze again into the Elf tights,” he stated.
However Ferrell is concerned in one other vacation movie. He’ll seem in “Spirited,” a film musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” alongside Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer.