Elf (film)
Production
Will Ferrell as Buddy Hobbs, aka "Buddy the Elf", an eccentric human who was raised by Santa's elves. James Caan as Walter Hobbs, a children's book publisher and Buddy's biological father. Zooey Deschanel as Jovie, an unenthusiastic worker at Gimbels and Buddy's love interest. Mary Steenburgen as Emily Hobbs, Walter's wife, Michael's mother and Buddy's stepmother. Daniel Tay as Michael Hobbs, Walter and Emily's son and Buddy's younger half brother. Bob Newhart as Papa Elf, Buddy’s adoptive father. Ed Asner as Santa Claus, who finds Buddy in his sack and gives him to Papa Elf to raise. Faizon Love as Wanda, the manager of Gimbels and Jovie's boss. Peter Dinklage as Miles Finch, a best-selling children's author who attacks Buddy for (mistakenly) calling him an elf. Amy Sedaris as Deb, Walter Hobbs' secretary. Michael Lerner as Mr. Greenway, Walter Hobbs' controlling and uncaring boss, the CEO of Greenway Press. Andy Richter as Morris, an associate of Walter Hobbs. Kyle Gass as Eugene Dupree, an associate of Walter Hobbs. Artie Lange as the Fake Santa, a Mall Santa who Buddy gets into an altercation with due to him not being the real Santa Claus. Jon Favreau as Dr. Ben Leonardo, the Hobbs family's pediatrician. Matt Walsh as Eye Witness. Peter Billingsley as Ming Ming (uncredited), the head elf of their workshop. Mark Acheson as a mailroom worker. David Paul Grove as Pom Pom, an elf who Buddy faints on when he discovers he's a human. Claire Lautier as Charlotte Dennon, NY 1 Reporter. Jane Bradbury as Susan Wells. (only in photograph) Patrick Ferrell as a security guard #1.[citation needed] Patrick McCartney as a security guard #2. Leon Redbone as Leon the Snowman, a snowman who lives at the North Pole. Ray Harryhausen as Polar Bear Cub. Jon Favreau as the Baby Walrus, Mr. Narwhal and the Arctic Puffin. Dallas McKennon as the Jack-in-the-Box (archive audio) Maurice LaMarche as Buddy's Burp (uncredited) David Berenbaum initially wrote the script in 1993 with Jim Carrey in mind to star. Berenbaum's screenplay underwent uncredited rewrites by Scot Armstrong, Chris Henchy, and the writing team of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. According to Favreau, the script was initially "much darker" and did not interest him, although he was interested in working with Ferrell's first post-SNL movie. Asked to rewrite it, a turning point came when he realized he could make Buddy's world an homage to the Rankin Bass Christmas specials. This allowed him to conceive of a movie that could be PG rated as opposed to the original script, which he guessed would have been rated PG-13.
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