{"id":50218,"date":"2026-11-09T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/u2s-the-edge-apparently-wrote-a-full-script-for-elf-2-but-was-never-able-to-bring-it-to-life\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:35:09","slug":"u2s-the-edge-apparently-wrote-a-full-script-for-elf-2-but-was-never-able-to-bring-it-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/u2s-the-edge-apparently-wrote-a-full-script-for-elf-2-but-was-never-able-to-bring-it-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"U2&#8217;s The Edge Apparently Wrote a Full Script for Elf 2 But Was Never Able to Bring It to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Updated<\/p>\n<p>: Nov 9, 2026 4:23am UTC<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">U2 guitarist The Edge apparently had such a good idea for <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/elf-2\">Elf 2<\/a> that he went out of his way to write his own script.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">That&#8217;s according to <a data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/elf\">Elf<\/a> actor and Dancing with the Stars legend Andy Richter, who spilled the beans about the musician&#8217;s fondness for Christmas during an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LSYp6oLFtZU\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Beast&#8217;s Obsessed podcast<\/a>. It&#8217;s a pairing no one ever saw coming but one that apparently still happened \u2013 or at least it <em>almost<\/em> happened.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">Richter said the story of The Edge (real name: David Howell Evans) and his secret Elf 2 script comes from producer and frequent Will Ferrell collaborator Shauna Robertson. When exactly the elusive script would have been written is unclear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/2026\/11\/09\/the-edge-1794197246085.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>The Edge. Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC \/ AFP via Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\">&#8220;She was in Europe, and somebody reached out to her and said, &#8216;The Edge from U2 has written a sequel to Elf, and he wants to talk to you about it.&#8217; It&#8217;s the weirdest story, but apparently, it was fully written,&#8221; Richter recalled.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/u2s-the-edge-apparently-wrote-a-full-script-for-elf-2-but-was-never-able-to-bring-it-to-life\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated : Nov 9, 2026 4:23am UTC U2 guitarist The Edge apparently had such a good idea for Elf 2 that he went out of his way to write his own script. That&#8217;s according to Elf actor and Dancing with the Stars legend Andy Richter, who spilled the beans about the musician&#8217;s fondness for Christmas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-50218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}