Bad Santa, the hilarious Billy Bob Thornton Christmas movie, has long been at the top of my list of films that actually do warrant a sequel. After all, Thornton was so perfect as a boozy St. Nick (in fact, Thornton admitted he was drunk during filming) that its genuinely one of the funniest films of the twenty-first century. There have long been rumors for a sequel — with Thornton eager to do it — but in the nine years (!) since the original’s release there hasn’t been much word on it movie forward.
That is, until now: Deadline is reporting that Dimension is in talks to hire Steve Pink, who directed the also very funny Hot Tub Time Machine, to direct the Bad Santa sequel. Pink will also rewrite the script by Johnny Rosenthal, whose only IMDb credit is a 2006 short titled The Convention. He better work hard: topping the original — directed by Terry Zwigoff and written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (with uncredited rewrites by Zwigoff and, believe it or not, Joel and Ethan Coen) — will be a tough task.
I imagine the earliest we’ll see this film is November or December 2013 — coincidentally ten years after the original’s release.
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