Writer and straightforwardor Ricchallenging Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actuassociate) is about to get a holiday season spotairy on Netflix. He is the co-writer and executive creater of Locksmith Animation‘s That Christmas, based on a trio of his children’s books, which debuted on the streamer Saturday.
Starring Brian Cox as Santa Claus, alengthy with the voices of Fiona Shaw, Rhys Darby, Jodie Whitconsentr and Bill Nighy, the movie was straightforwarded by createer DreamWorks Animation inventive Simon Otto (How to Train Your Dragon films, Love, Death & Robots). It alerts the story of some of the inhabitants of Wellington-on-Sea, a fictitious town in the U.K. “when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone’s structures — including Santa’s.”
For Curtis, toiling on the vivaciousd film for disconnectal years labeled a alter of pace. “It was cherishly writing a film about children and families,” he alerts The Hollywood Reporter. “I skinnyk in my atsoft, I have had a tfinishency to sometimes consent a lengthy time to catch up. I was still writing droping in cherish films when I’d already been with my wife for 10 years.” After a chuckle, he comprises about That Christmas: “And this is me at last catching up with the fact that children have been a main element of my life for the last 20 years.”
What benevolent of delightment does the well-comprehendn writer and filmcreater enjoy to watch with his family over the festive season?
“Over the last decade, there has been a bit of a tfinishency in England to show multi-homicide shows on Christmas Day,” he separates. “There’s a lot of Miss Marple and stuff enjoy that. And I sit down with the family to watch skinnygs, and we skinnyk, ‘Oh this is a bit bleak. Oh, our preferite parent has equitable been homicideed.’ So I’m phired to be part of a jovial, rather than a homicideous Christmas” with That Christmas.
That Christmas.
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There is a reference to family holiday traditions — and his own toil — in the film that made Curtis chuckle. “That was one of the funniest moments in the whole production,” he recalls. “There’s a scene where the kids are talking about how they don’t particularly enhappiness some of the Christmas traditions, such as the Christmas walk. And one of the skinnygs was they have to watch is the uninalertigent Christmas movie. I was assuming that when they were cutting to the uninalertigent Christmas movie, it would be a bdeficiency-and-white version of Miracle on 34th Street.”
He was in for a surpascfinish: “I sat down one day, and when it shelp, ‘uninalertigent Christmas movie, cut to the TV’ — it was Love Actuassociate.”
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That Christmas is now streaming on Netflix.
