The kind of women who think travel is a substitute for having a personality, and have an unnatural attraction to Yankee Candles, also frequently have an annual viewing of Elf on their festive “Must Do” list.
Which is a shame, as they ruin it for everyone else.
Speaking of ruining things, this story involved U2. Or to be specific, U2’s guitarist who calls himself The Edge.
According to recent reports, The Edge has, weirdly, written a complete script to the Will Ferrell-led Christmas classic.
Andy Richter, who had a small role in the film, confirmed it in an appearance on the Obsessed Podcast.
He said that original Elf producer Shauna Robertson had shared the news with him:
“Somebody reached out to her and said, ‘The Edge from U2 has written a sequel to ‘Elf’ and he wants to talk to you about it’. 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. 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.”
He also confirmed that Old School writer Scott Armstrong had also penned a separate sequel script about some evil South Pole elves travelling to the North Pole to kidnap Santa Clause.
Richter himself said that a sequel probably isn’t needed:
“I’m on the side of ‘Let it stand’. Just let ‘Elf’ be ‘Elf.’ You don’t have to use every part of the animal.
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?”
The Jon Favreau movie from 2003 is considered a modern Christmas classic.
