J.K. Simmons and Bonnie Hunt have joined Dwayne Johnson in Christmas comedy Red One, as it begins production.
Here’s some casting we can get behind. The great, Oscar-winning J.K. Simmons will play Santa alongside Bonnie Hunt as Mrs Claus opposite Dwayne Johnson in Red One. This is the upcoming festive film that we’re guessing is being prepared for the end of next year.
Plot details are still being kept under wraps, but we do know that it will also star Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Kristofer Hivju, Nick Kroll, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, and Wesley Kimmel.
The film will see Johnson reunite with Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle director Jake Kasdan, working from a screenplay by Fast and Furious scribe Chris Morgan.
There are no dates for this one, though we do know it will be released via Amazon Prime.
Deadline
—
Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website:
Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here.
Buy our Film Stories and Film Junior print magazines here.
Become a Patron here.
Related Stories
- Werewolf Santa | Festive frights abound in trailer for Christmas horror
Werewolf Santa heads to streaming next month, and here's the trailer for the incoming festive horror movie.
Horror has been a subgenre of festive filmmaking since 1972's Whoever Slew Auntie Roo, then Silent Night, Bloody Night and Black Christmas further popularised the concept of seasonal scares.
The latest addition to this particular collection is Werewolf Santa, which takes a more comedic [...]
- Trailer released for Blumhouse horror comedy Totally Killer
The house of Blumhouse's latest film is horror comedy Totally Killer, and the trailer for it has landed.
It’s been a busy year for Blumhouse, with the release of the fifth installment of the hugely popular Insidious franchise, The Red Door. October will see the release of both David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer and Emma Tammi’s Five Nights At Freddy’s, as well [...]
- Hallmark is starting to release its Christmas movies from next month, a teaser of some of the highlights
Forty festive and seasonal films are planned by Hallmark between now and the end of the year, it's been announced. Ho ho ho!
Don’t worry about the ongoing strikes in the world of film and TV getting in the way of some traditional festive gold. Over in the US – and that means we’ll be getting [...]
- Dwayne Johnson will star in new Fast and Furious spin-off film
Dwayne Johnson is back at the centre of the Fast and Furious universe, as a second film centered around his character Hobbs is announced.
How times change. A few years ago, Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel had quite the disagreement, their differences seemingly irreconcilable. Yet it now seems that Johnson is firmly back in the, well, [...]
- David Yates’ Pain Hustlers gets teaser trailer
David Yates' latest takes a look at the ethically dubious practices of pharmaceutical companies - here's the trailer for Pain Hustlers.
Director David Yates is likely best known for his forays into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, having helmed various instalments of the Potter and Fantastic Beasts series. His latest film, which is being released on Netflix [...]
