{"id":827856,"date":"2026-11-08T07:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/827856\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T07:08:10","slug":"u2s-the-edge-wrote-a-sequel-to-elf-says-andy-richter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/827856\/","title":{"rendered":"U2’s The Edge Wrote a Sequel to ‘Elf,’ Says Andy Richter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAccording to Andy Richter<\/a>, U2<\/a>\u2019s the Edge penned a script for a sequel to \u201cElf<\/a>\u201d \u2014 but fans will likely never get to see (or read) it.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn a recent episode of \u201cObsessed: The Podcast<\/a>,\u201d the actor explained that Shauna Robertson, who\u2019d produced the original film, once received a message saying that the band member, also known as David Howell Evans, had written a script for \u201cElf 2\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSomebody reached out to her and said, \u2018The Edge from U2 has written a sequel to \u2018Elf,\u2019 and he wants to talk to you about it,\u2019\u201d Richter said. \u201cIt\u2019s the weirdest story, but apparently it was fully written. Somewhere in the world there is an Edge-penned \u2018Elf 2\u2019 out there\u2026 I would love for that to make the light of day. It never happened. It\u2019s one of those things where she\u2019s like, \u2018All right, sure, I\u2019ll meet him,\u2019 and then it just petered out and never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to the Edge, \u201cOld School\u201d and \u201cThe Hangover Part II\u201d writer Scot Armstrong penned a separate sequel script about \u201cthe evil South Pole elves kidnapping Santa or something like that,\u201d said Richter. (He also noted that Armstrong had helped write \u201cElf,\u201d but wasn\u2019t credited for guild and procedural reasons.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd yet despite how beloved the holiday classic <\/a>remains 23 years later, Richter is steadfast in the belief that a sequel isn\u2019t necessary at this point. \u201cI\u2019m on the side of \u2018Let it stand,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201dJust let \u2018Elf\u2019 be \u2018Elf.\u2019 You don\u2019t have to use every part of the animal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cNow that time has passed, the movie has become so special that I think that people, rightfully so, are loath to mess with it because we all can think of movies that have been tarnished by their sequels. And this is so special and so perfect and so beloved\u2026 Why risk it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cElf,\u201d directed by Jon Favreau, originally hit theaters in 2003, starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel<\/a>, Mary Steenburgen and others. The Christmas classic followed Buddy the elf (Ferrell), who travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, <\/a>Walter Hobbs (Caan).<\/p>\n

\n\tRitcher appeared briefly in the film as one of Hobbs\u2019 colleagues and co-wrote the book \u201cElf Unwrapped: Behind the Scenes of a Modern Christmas Classic,\u201d released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Andy Richter, U2\u2019s the Edge penned a script for a sequel to \u201cElf\u201d \u2014 but fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[85461,6491,50598,96,932,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-827856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andy-richter","tag-celebrities","tag-elf","tag-entertainment","tag-u2","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}