Dear Santa | Trailer released for Jack Black Christmas film

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Jack Black is reuniting with the Farrelly brothers for Christmas comedy Dear Santa, and hereā€™s the trailer for the film.


Jack Black and the Farrelly brothers have worked together before. Go back to 2001, and we got Shallow Hal. It follows a man (Black) who is hypnotized into seeing only the inner beauty of women and falls in love with Gwyneth Paltrow. It remains a prime example of the Farrelly brothersā€™ near-the-knuckle comedy. However, itā€™s also a film with a rather unpleasant mean streak which has attracted a lot of criticism in the years since its release.

Anyway, to now. Jack Black has reunited with the Farrelly brothers to play a twisted version of Father Christmas in festive film Dear Santa.

Black stars alongside Robert Timothy Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, PJ Byrne, newcomer Jaden Carson Baker, Kai Cech and Austin Post.

Bobby Farrelly directed the film from a screenplay by Ricky Blitt and Peter Farrelly, from a story they co-wrote with Dan Ewen.

Dear Santa will stream on Paramount+ from the 25th November.

Watch the trailer below:


Black will next be seen in long awaited video game adaptation A Minecraft Movie alongside Jason Momoa, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen and Jennifer Coolidge. Napoleon Dynamiteā€™s Jared Hess directs from a screenplay by Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer. It will be released in cinemas on 4th April 2025.

Peter Farrelly recently co-wrote and directed Amazon Prime comedy film Ricky Stanicky starring John Cena. He has also signed on to direct Sporkinfeesten, a family vacation comedy from a script by Aaron and Will Eisenberg for Amazon.

Finally, the synopsis for Dear Santa reads as followsā€¦

When it comes to being bad, heā€™s the worst! When a young boy mails his Christmas wish list to Santa with one crucial spelling error, a devilish Jack Black arrives to wreak havoc on the holidays. From the hilarious minds behind Dumb & Dumber, Christmas is about to go up in flames.

Read more: Red One | Are Christmas films now the preserve of streaming rather than cinema?

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