Will Ferrell Refused To Do Elf 2 Because He Hated The Script

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Although we might watch movies repeatedly, it is not typically till we get to Christmas that we see movies we have seen many times over. It just seems as if those nostalgic movies tend to come up every year.

Perhaps you have a favorite holiday movie of your own. It could be Home Alone, or perhaps one of the Charlie Brown specials. Although that may be true, you would have a difficult time topping what Will Ferrell brings to the table when it comes to Elf.

Since the movie was so popular, you might be wondering why there was never a sequel. As it turns out, one was in the makings but Ferrell refused to take part in it.

Will Ferrell was speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about another movie when he discussed the former plans for Elf 2. They offered him $29 million to be the star but he turned down the script because he felt it was terrible.

It wasn’t just a matter of him nitpicking the script, he felt as if he couldn’t be enthusiastic when playing the part and he could never promote a movie that he couldn’t get behind.

He said: “I would have had to promote the movie from an honest place, which would’ve been like ‘oh no, it’s no good. I just couldn’t turn down that much money. And I thought, ‘can I actually say those words? I don’t think I can, so I guess I can’t do the movie.”

Audiences have loved watching Buddy the Elf for many years since the first movie came out. Perhaps you have watched it a number of times as well.

Like many movies that are popular, a sequel or two usually follows and they don’t typically live up to the hype. Will Ferrell has been a part of some of those sequels but he refused to have the same thing happen with Elf.

As far as the original movie was concerned, it made over $200 million. It is also a Christmas classic that continues to show up, year after year.

Perhaps we can just be thankful that there is not a bad sequel that we have to own and never watch. I think we have enough of those lying around.