Yahoo News Watch the first trailer for Jack Black's new Christmas movie Dear Santa
Jack Black's new Christmas movie Dear Santa has unveiled its first trailer ahead of its release this month.
The upcoming Paramount+ comedy follows a boy who still believes in Santa and, determined to prove to his friends that he's real, writes a letter to Father Christmas. However, a spelling error leads him to accidentally summon Satan (Black).
Following a small teaser unveiling the Jumanji star in character yesterday (November 7), we've now been treated to the full trailer for Dear Santa.
You can check out the Dear Santa trailer above.
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Dear Santa will be released on Paramount+ in the US on November 25 and on November 26 on the streaming service in the UK.
Opening up about the festive comedy, director Bobby Farrelly of the Farrelly Brothers compared it to previous movies by the comedy filmmaking pair such as Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary.
"It is a family story because it is Christmas," he explained to Entertainment Weekly. "But you know what? Pete and I, we're the Farrelly brothers, so we wanted to put our skewed version on a Christmas story like this, but at the same time, we don't want to just blow it up.
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"We wanted it to have a sweetness to it underneath all the edge and all that, so that's the Farrelly Brothers Christmas movie."
Speaking further about casting Black, he noted: "Jack is just that guy that with his arching eyebrows and his faces and all that, there's a little bit of mischievous to him at all times, but he's eminently likeable, and that's just Jack.
"We never wanted to make it a horror movie or something like that. We wanted it to be comical. So it was a delicate ball of playing this iconic character but doing it in a way that the audience can have some fun with it. And Jack was the perfect guy."
Dear Santa is released on Paramount+ on November 25 in the US and on November 26 in the UK.
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