Grylls stows away a Twinkie for Ferrell to get some quick energy in a pinch. Wild” brand, built upon Grylls’ tips to survive forbidding environments? Ford said he didn’t think so.
The network was mulling the idea of a celebrity version of Grylls’ show, and considers the Ferrell episode a successful pilot.įor adventurous stars, it undoubtedly has greater cache than a run on “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.” But does it cheapen the “Man vs.
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“I would have killed to have Will Ferrell out in the wilderness with Bear Grylls, even if we didn’t have a movie to promote,” said John Ford, Discovery’s president and general manager. For instance, when the movie “Frost/Nixon” was released, Discovery’s “Cash Cab” game featured questions from the Nixon era. Wild” episode is part a wider cross-promotion deal between Discovery Communications Inc. Ferrell plays a scientist who has some close encounters with dinosaurs in a time warp adventure. “I started watching it and thought, ‘This could be too crazy to say no to,”‘ he said.Īll in the name of promotion, too: the Discovery episode airs three days before Ferrell’s movie “Land of the Lost” hits the theaters. But the comic actor, who has run three marathons, warmed to the idea.
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Wild,” probably the looniest and most entertaining series in the adventurist genre, when his manager broached the idea. “Nine out of 10 actors would not do that,” Ferrell deadpanned in an interview with The Associated Press.įerrell wasn’t familiar with “Man vs. Dinner, and breakfast the next morning, comes from the head of a reindeer carcass found along the way. June 2.įerrell climbs out of a helicopter by rope (“Mommy!” he shouts), is eased down a cliff supported by two sticks wedged in ice, trudges through waist-deep snow on makeshift snowshoes of twigs and spends a night with Grylls in a snow cave. Their trip is chronicled on an episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Man vs. The wilderness of northern Sweden, where Will Ferrell ate grilled reindeer eyeballs with adventurer Bear Grylls, seems like a long way to go to promote a movie and test-drive a television spinoff.īut that’s where the two men were for 48 hours in early April, where the subzero temperatures made laughable the idea of spring. Wild’ – Orange County Register Close Menu
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