The Edge wrote a full Elf sequel that never got made

The Edge has a finished Elf sequel in a drawer somewhere. Andy Richter said so on The Daily Beast podcast with Matt Wilstein, around the 31-minute mark. U2's guitarist reportedly wrote the whole thing.

Richter knows the territory. He had a small role in the 2003 film and co-wrote Elf Unwrapped: Behind The Scenes Of A Modern Christmas Classic, out last week. Per Richter, Canadian producer Shauna Robertson had been approached about a sequel written by the Edge. It collapsed, as Richter tells it, because things did not work out.

Will Ferrell's Elf remains a December staple, which makes a completed script sitting unproduced the kind of Hollywood artifact people will now ask about. No script pages, no studio, no revival talk have surfaced. For now the sequel exists only as a story Richter told on a podcast.