Not every motion picture requires a follow up, and Elf director Jon Favreau appears to feel that his hit vacation funny starring Will Ferrell may be best left alone. Back in 2003, Elf was launched in cinema to amazing success, scoring vital appreciation and substantial earnings at package workplace. Given yearly watchings by fans every year throughout the vacation season, it’s been clear for many years that Elf is up there as one of the best Christmas motion pictures of perpetuity.


While Elf motivated a Broadway musical adjustment in addition to a stop-motion television special, it was never ever offered a main motion picture follow up. That might appear odd offered the original’s success and Hollywood’s fondness for reviewing anything that’s achieved success in the past. In a brand-new interview acknowledging his induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Favreau informs Variety that this is due to the fact that no great concept to continue the story has actually yet turned up, and he feels that the initial Elf ends in a quite total method, leaving little space to make a follow up. From the interview:

” I believe there’s constantly space for brand-new Christmas motion pictures; that specific movie, I do not understand what story would be informed after that. It’s extremely total,” Favreau states.

There had actually been efforts in the past to get an Elf 2 off the ground, with an ended up movie script getting pitched to initial star Will Ferrell at one point. In 2021, Ferrell exposed how he denied the motion picture due to the fact that he was not delighted about the script, which he referred to as having a “rehashed premise” compared to the very first motion picture. The star informed THR that he could not in great conscience take the huge income and promote the motion picture if he understood from the start that it wasn’t going to be great.

Ferrell described, “I would have had to promote the movie from an honest place, which would’ve been, like, ‘Oh no, it’s not 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.'”


Could Elf 2 Happen Without Will Ferrell?

Actor Faizon Love, who plays Gimbels shop supervisor Wanda in the very first Elf, has actually stated that Elf 2 might take place withoutWill Ferrell He has actually pitched a concept that would restore his character while presenting a Black fairy as a method to separate from the very first installation.

” I believe Elf 2 could occur with Faizon Love,” he told TMZ in 2021. “What’s incorrect with a Black fairy? I believe America is prepared for a Black fairy. You had a Black president, you had an orange president, now it’s time for a Black fairy.”

On the huge cash Ferrell apparently denied for Elf 2, Love included, “I was shocked he denied that much cash … If they would’ve asked me to do it for some potato chips and $3500[I’d do it] He denied $29 million?Wow Whoa.”