U2’s The Edge wrote a sequel to ‘Elf’ that was shelved

Comedian and actor Andy Richter has revealed that U2’s The Edge wrote a sequel to Will Ferrell’s festive classic Elf.

Richter, who played children’s author Morris alongside Tenacious D’s Kyle Gass in Elf, has written a new book about the making of the film.

While promoting Elf Unwrapped: The Making Of A Modern Christmas Classic on an episode of Obsessed: The Podcast, he said that the film’s original producer Shauna Robertson was contacted by The Edge (real name David Howell Evans) about a script he’d written for an Elf 2.

“It’s the weirdest story, but apparently it was fully written. Somewhere in the world there is an Edge-penned Elf 2 out there. I would love for that to make the light of day,” said Richter. “It never happened. It’s one of those things where she’s like, ‘All right, sure, I’ll meet him,’ and then it just petered out and never happened.”

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He repeated the anecdote while speaking on Page Six Radio. “It just, as so many things do, fizzled out,” he said of the project.

Elsewhere on Obsessed: The Podcast, Richter revealed that The Hangover Part 2 writer Scot Armstrong also wrote a script for Elf 2 after working on the original film. His sequel would have seen “evil South Pole elves kidnapping Santa” but nothing ever came of it.

Richter also said that he doesn’t believe a sequel should be made. “Now 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… Why risk it?”

Meanwhile, U2 are preparing to release their 16th studio album ‘Carnaval De Luz’ on November 13, ahead of a massive 2027 world tour. Last week, U2 kicked off their ‘Carnaval De Luz’ era with an intimate gig at London’s Tate Modern Museum following their recent 50 year anniversary celebration gigs in Dublin in September.