Will Ferrell Reveals Plan to Adapt His ‘Eurovision’ Movie for Broadway

Will Ferrell has revealed he’s working on a Broadway adaptation of his 2020 comedy about the Eurovision Song Contest.

Appearing on the Graham Norton Show alongside fellow guest Olly Alexander — also a Eurovision veteran — the actor talked about his love of the annual song competition, which led to co-writing and co-starring in the Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

The movie starred Ferrell and Rachel McAdams as a pair of small-town Icelandic singers who manage to represent their country at the Eurovision competition as a duo called Fire Saga.

Five years later, Ferrell — who attended the 2024 Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden — told Norton that they’ve already enlisted talent to help bring the comedy to the stage. “We’re trying to develop it into a Broadway show,” Ferrell said (via Broadway World). 

“We went with [a] songwriter and director [to Eurovision] as they had never seen it. My wife happens to be Swedish, so Malmo, Sweden, Eurovision… and here we are now.”

The Broadway adaptation will likely feature music from the film, notably the Fire Saga song “Husavik,” which was nominated for (but ultimately lost) Best Original Song at that year’s Oscars. The film’s soundtrack was also nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards.