U2's The Edge clarifies he didn't write a script for Elf 2: "I wrote a treatment"

Though news of Edge’s secret life as a screenwriter made headlines, those stories didn’t reach the tour bus. “Where did you hear about this?” Bono inquired. “It’s been all over the news,” Edge said. Bono, who claimed to have known nothing about it, seems genuinely amazed to learn such a fascinating new fact about his creative partner of over 40 years. “This is breaking news,” Bono says, turning to Larry Mullen Jr. to ask, “Did you know about this?”

Edge explains that three or four times in his life, he’s woken up with a “complete movie outline in my head,” and on that morning, he woke up with a sequel to Elf, a movie he loves and is a self-described “big fan” of. Like Bono and Mullen, Edge says he was “pretty surprised,” too, but thought it “so far-fetched” that he didn’t take it seriously. Still, he wrote it all down and talked to a producer friend about it, while conceding that Ferrell is “key to the idea” and he “might be finding out about it right now.” If Ferrell doesn’t want to wear yellow stockings again, Mullen has a pretty solid workaround: “I know Chad Smith [from the Red Hot Chili Peppers] is available.”