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Unique contract clause Will Ferrell had about famous actor he never wants to work with again

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Updated 13:36 29 Jan 2025 GMTPublished 17:44 28 Jan 2025 GMT

Unique contract clause Will Ferrell had about famous actor he never wants to work with again

Ferrell had it in his contract for a major film

Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin

Featured Image Credit: Sean M Haffey via Getty Images

Topics: Will Ferrell, Elf, Entertainment, Film, TV and Film

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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Will Ferrell had a unique clause in his contract about a famous actor he flat out refused to work with again.

We all have probably had a coworker at some point or another who has pi**ed us off to no end.

If you have never had that experience? You were that coworker.

What many of us won’t have had however, is the opportunity to put into our contract something that bars them from working with us again if we want to, which reportedly is exactly what Ferrell had.

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Will Ferrell (Lia Toby via Getty Images)
Will Ferrell (Lia Toby via Getty Images)

Now unique contract clauses in Hollywood are no rare thing.

Queen Latifah famously has clauses in many of her contracts prohibiting her characters from dying, The Rock puts it into contracts that he cannot lose fights, and Reese Witherspoon got it into her contract that she get to keep all her clothes from Legally Blonde 2.

Ferrell’s meanwhile, actually led to a sequel to Elf never having been made.

The story came about when the late James Caan in 2020 was interviewed on the radio and he was incredibly frank about the reason a sequel never happened.

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James Caan (centre) with Will Ferrell and Amy Sedaris in Elf (Warner Bros)
James Caan (centre) with Will Ferrell and Amy Sedaris in Elf (Warner Bros)

According to Caan, it was due to tensions between Ferrell and director Jon Favreau.

Favreau is now most well known as an actor, playing Happy Hogan in a multitude of Marvel films and Pete in Friends.

The 58-year-old has also directed several classics such as Zathura, Chef, and of course, Elf.

Caan spoke about the pair in the context of a sequel to Elf, saying that himself Zoey Deschanel, himself and Mary Steenburgen were all on board to return.

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He said: “We were gonna do it.

“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.’

“But the director and Will didn't get along very well.”

Caan claims the two did not get on (Sylvain Gaboury via Getty Images)
Caan claims the two did not get on (Sylvain Gaboury via Getty Images)

He claimed that Ferrell was considering it, but didn’t do the film as he had in his contract that he refused to work with Favreau again.

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He said: “He had it in his contract, it was one of those things.”

Ferrell has not acknowledged this but has stated that he turned down £23 million to appear in a sequel to Elf.

He said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “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.’

I thought, ‘Can I actually say those words? I don’t think I can, so I guess I can’t do the movie’.”

The LADbible group have reached out to representatives for Will Ferrell for comment.

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