{"id":68982,"date":"2023-12-16T12:13:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T12:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/?p=68982"},"modified":"2023-12-16T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T12:13:26","slug":"elf-2-will-never-happen-despite-will-ferrell-being-offered-massive-paycheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/celebrities\/elf-2-will-never-happen-despite-will-ferrell-being-offered-massive-paycheque\/","title":{"rendered":"Elf 2 will \u2018never happen\u2019 despite Will Ferrell being offered massive paycheque"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asda releases Christmas ad with Will Ferrell as Buddy the elf<\/h3>\n

Before his passing in July 2022, James Caan, who played Will Ferrell’s biological father in the Christmas classic Elf, revealed why a sequel to the 2003 hit never happened.<\/p>\n

In an interview, he shared that despite the cast, including Zooey Deschanel and Mary Steenburgen, being keen for a reunion, tension on set stopped the idea from becoming a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were gonna do it and I thought, ‘Oh my god, I finally got a franchise movie, I could make some money, let my kids do what the hell they want to do\u2019,” he joked.<\/p>\n

However, he revealed on 92.3 Sports Radio: “But the director and Will didn’t get along very well.”<\/p>\n

Despite being offered a staggering $29 million, Will refused to return for a sequel.<\/p>\n

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He even said it would be ‘pathetic’ to try and remake Elf.<\/p>\n

“I just think it would look slightly pathetic if I tried to squeeze back in the elf tights. Buddy the middle-aged Elf,” he quipped on Watch What Happens Live.<\/p>\n

Will was 35 when he first donned the famous green costume in November 2003.<\/p>\n

He won many fans for his role as Buddy the Elf, a human raised by elves, in the Christmas film directed by Jon Favreau, who also made a brief appearance as Doctor Leonardo.<\/p>\n

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The film, made on a budget of $32 million (\u00a325.5 million), grossed an impressive $220 million (\u00a3175,000) worldwide and has remained a popular Christmas favorite.<\/p>\n

On the film’s 10th anniversary, director Favreau shared how he got involved.<\/p>\n

“They were looking for somebody to rewrite it and possibly direct it,” he told Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

“And I remember reading it, and it clicked – if I made the world that he was from as though he grew up as an elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, one of those Rankin\/Bass Christmas specials I grew up with, then everything fell into place tonally. So for a year, I rewrote the script.”<\/p>\n