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Will Ferrell has revealed he turned down an offer of $29 million to make a \u201cnot good\u2019 film sequel to the hit Christmas comedy Elf.<\/p>\n
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Ferrell explained that he couldn\u2019t justify accepting the multi-million offer.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have had to promote the movie from\u00a0an honest place, which would\u2019ve been, like, \u2018Oh no<\/i>, it\u2019s not good. I just couldn\u2019t turn down that much money.\u2019 And I thought, \u2018Can I actually say those words? I don\u2019t think I can, so I guess I can\u2019t do the movie\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In the original film, Ferrell led the cast as Buddy the Elf, an eccentric and excitable human who was raised by Santa\u2019s elves, but who leaves the North Pole (and its stop-motion animated creatures) for New York in search of his birth father.<\/p>\n The original Elf was released in the early 2000s, and Ferrell recounted in the same interview how he worried the film would prove a flop. Recalling running around New York dressed in yellow tights (part of his Buddy the Elf costume), he remembered thinking: \u201cBoy, this could be the end.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the test screenings for the film went unexpectedly well. His manager called regularly after each test: \u201cHe was like, \u2018Well, the family one went great, but we could really get eviscerated in this next one. I\u2019m looking at a bunch of what look like USC frat boys about to go in,\u2019\u201dsaid\u00a0Ferrell. \u201cThen later I hear, no, that group actually liked it, too.\u201d<\/p> Take a look at our Movies<\/a> hub for more news and features, or check out our TV Guide<\/a> to find out what\u2019s on TV tonight.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Flora Carr Published: Friday, 29 October 2021 at 12:00 am Will Ferrell has revealed he turned down an offer of $29 million to make a \u201cnot good\u2019 film sequel to the hit Christmas comedy Elf. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrell explained that he couldn\u2019t justify accepting the multi-million offer. \u201cI would have had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6456,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel.jpg",2079,1221,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel-300x176.jpg",300,176,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel-768x451.jpg",768,451,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel-1024x601.jpg",800,470,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel-1536x902.jpg",1536,902,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/10\/will-ferrell-turned-down-29-million-to-make-not-good-elf-sequel-2048x1203.jpg",2048,1203,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Flora Carr Published: Friday, 29 October 2021 at 12:00 am Will Ferrell has revealed he turned down an offer of $29 million to make a \u201cnot good\u2019 film sequel to the hit Christmas comedy Elf. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrell explained that he couldn\u2019t justify accepting the multi-million offer. \u201cI would have had…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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