Will Ferrell is set to turn his 2020 comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga into a Broadway musical.
The actor starred in and co-wrote the Netflix film with Harper Steele and the pair will develop the show with Anthony King, whose Broadway credits include Beetlejuice and Gutenberg! The Musical!.
There is no timeline yet to the production.
“We are more than excited to bring Eurovision to Broadway,” Ferrell said in a statement. “The stage musical is a perfect place to continue our celebration of all the things we love about this amazing and unifying song competition.”
The film was released on Netflix in June 2020 and followed a pair of Icelandic singers, played by Ferrell and Rachel McAdams, as they took part in Eurovision. It received an Oscar nomination for best original song.
It received mixed reviews upon release with the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calling it “a strange, tonally misfiring movie”.
“This is a stellar team for what I am sure will be an equally stellar adaption of a film the world loved,” said Martin Green, CBE director of the Eurovision Song Contest. “Our aim always is to bring the joy of the Eurovision Song Contest to more people globally – especially as we approach our 70th edition in 2026.”
The show will be directed by Alex Timber who is currently behind the Tony-nominated Bobby Darin musical Just in Time.
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest was watched by 166 million people worldwide.
Ferrell and Steele recently starred in the acclaimed documentary Will & Harper, a road trip documentary about their friendship. Ferrell also starred in comedy You’re Cordially Invited earlier this year and is currently filming comedy Judgment Day with Zac Efron and Regina Hall.
