"Elf" is 23 years old, if you can believe it . . . and it's a bona fide Christmas classic. And in the current climate of mining intellectual properties for everything they're worth, it's hard to believe there hasn't been a sequel.
Well, someone tried to get one going a while back . . . and that someone is U2 guitarist The Edge.
Andy Richter has been making the rounds to promote his new behind-the-scenes book about "Elf". And in a recent interview, he revealed that The Edge actually wrote a script for "Elf 2", but for some reason it, quote, "petered out."
Andy says, quote, "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."
But Andy, who played a children's book writer in the original "Elf", doesn't think there should be a sequel at all. Quote, "[The movie] is so special and so perfect and so beloved, why risk it?"
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