#Faizon Love Wants to Make Elf 2 Without Will Ferrell

“#Faizon Love Wants to Make Elf 2 Without Will Ferrell”

Faizon Love says now’s the time to introduce a Black elf as the lead in Elf 2 if Will Ferrell doesn’t want to return as Buddy.

It has always seemed like it would take a holiday miracle for Elf 2 to ever happen, as Will Ferrell has made it clear he’s really not interested in returning as Buddy. If you ask his co-star Faizon Love, however, the potential sequel could do just fine without Ferrell back in the lead. In fact, Love suggests that a fresh direction might be exactly what something like Elf 2 needs.

In the first Elf, Love played Wanda, the manager of the Gimbels store and the boss to Zooey Deschanel’s Jovie. Following reports of Ferrell turning down a $29 million paycheck to make Elf 2, Love spoke with TMZ about the situation. While he’s surprised Ferrell would leave so much money on the table, Love also sees his refusal to return as a good thing. The actor explains that now is the perfect time to introduce a Black elf as he feels audiences will embrace this change in 2021.

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“I think Elf 2 could happen with Faizon Love. What’s wrong with a Black elf? I think America is ready for a Black elf. You had a Black president, you had an orange president, now it’s time for a Black elf. I was surprised [Will Ferrell] he turned down that much money… If they would’ve asked me to do it for some potato chips and $3500 [I’d do it]. He turned down $29 million? Wow. Whoa.”

Ferrell opened up recently about exactly why he didn’t want to return for Elf 2. According to the actor, he was very unimpressed after reading the screenplay they had in mind for the unmade sequel. He opined that the story was a retread of the first Elf and would have let people down, and he didn’t want to promote the sequel leading up to its release as if it was a good movie if he didn’t feel that it was.

That’s an understandable enough explanation, and given the roles that would keep coming for Ferrell, he wasn’t exactly strapped for cash either. Even so, Faizon Love questions this explanation, claiming that Ferrell even thought the first Elf was “trash.” Love also takes some shots at Ferrell’s starring role in 2009’s Land of the Lost, a movie he accepted after Elf which was a critically-panned box office bomb and Razzie Award winner. This has Love wondering how exactly Ferrell decides which scripts are worth his time.

“The first one, he thought was trash. So, I don’t know how he’s reading his scripts, but I’ve seen some questionable [movies he’s made]. You know the one with him and the dinosaur, Land of the Lost, was that a great script? I don’t know. If you look at Land of the Lost right now, [and say], ‘This is a great script! Land of the Lost, this is gonna – wooo!’”

It’s always easy to look back in retrospect and realize which roles might have been mistakes. In any case, Elf remains one of the most popular Christmas movies of all time, and it will likely remain that way for many years, with or without an Elf 2. This news comes to us from TMZ.