In “Elf,” Will Ferrell‘s Buddy treks from the North Pole to NYC to find his biological father, James Caan‘s Walter Hobbs, and Hobbs has little patience for Buddy’s childlike antics. As it turns out, Caan didn’t find Ferrell too amusing on set either.  

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EW reports that Ferrell recounted on the “MeSsy” podcast on how he and Caan didn’t see eye to eye while filming “Elf.” So much so, in fact, the legendary actor couldn’t help but tease Ferrell for how over-the-top his acting was as Buddy.

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Since its release 20 years ago, people have fully embraced Jon Favreau’s Christmas film, “Elf.” And over the past couple of decades, the fanbase for “Elf” has continued to grow with new kids discovering it every year. This has led to a constant question of whether or not Favreau will reteam with Will Ferrell for a sequel to the film. It seems like a no-brainer in an industry where anything popular is squeezed for every last dollar, no matter the creative failings.

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The loss of acting legend James Caan is hard for all the usual reasons, compelling movie-lovers to think of all the time we’ve spent with his films and feel as if we’ve lost someone not just known, but close to us. But it’s made all the more difficult by the fact that there’s no one in the younger generations that can even come close to filling his shoes. Born to a Jewish butcher who’d come over from Germany, raised on the lively and hardscrabble streets of Sunnyside, Queens, he was so thoroughly identified with blue-collar America that he practically earned an on-screen double citizenship as an honorary Italian.

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When it comes to modern Christmas classics, you can’t typically go wrong with suggesting the family sit around and enjoy “Elf.” The Will Ferrell comedy film was a massive success when it first hit theaters and has seemingly shot up the ranks of Christmas films, putting it shoulder-to-shoulder with “A Christmas Story,” “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” and even “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” This all makes it so surprising that 2003’s “Elf” was never given a sequel, which is also a time-honored Christmas film tradition.

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To say that “Elf” is a beloved Christmas film is a gross understatement. Released back in 2003, the Will Ferrell film has become a holiday classic over the past couple of decades. And as we’ve seen time after time in Hollywood, you can’t have a hit film (especially one the size of “Elf”) just be left on the shelf. You dust that red and green character off and make multiple sequels, a theme park ride, a toy line, and whatever else you can do to drain it of all the money it’s worth.

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Surrounded by his many leather-bound books in his apartment that smells of resplendent rich mahogany, thespian Will Ferrell contemplates the universe and therefore exemplifies the acting cliche: to be or not to be. Ultimately, the question is moot: Ferrell just is. From his cameo in “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” to this week’s “The Other Guys,” Ferrell doesn’t merely act; like Tom Hardy in “Inception,” he embodies his characters, taking the legacy of Konstantin Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg and Marlon Brando and bringing it to its ultimate conclusion.

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The Rage Against The Machine guitarist had a short cameo in the first film and contributed some guitar work to the score as was well. so it’s no major surprise he’ll be doing the same for the sequel. Don’t get too excited though, it’s almost certainly not going to be a composing credit (he didn’t get one on “Iron Man”) and Morello is simply playing the guitar tracks for the music Debney composes.

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