Bad Santa 2 Confirmed; Filming to begin in January

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Billy Bob Thorton has been putting in good work for years. From his work with the Coen Brothers in The Man Who Wasn’t There and Intolerable Cruelty to his recent turn on the television series Fargo, Thorton has had some high profile turns. But there is no role he is more synonymous with than as conman Willie Soke, aka the eponymous Bad Santa. There has been talk for years that a sequel was in the works, and now it appears all the pieces have finally fallen into place.

Miramax confirmed by press release that production will start in January 2016 with the aim to have the sequel in theaters for the 2016 holiday season. Strangely, they do not mention a director, though Terry Zwigoff directed the original film. But as we previously reported, Doug Ellin has been part of the sequel discussion.

The first movie did quite well with critics and audiences alike, and I still hear people make references to it to this day. That being said, it is interesting that a sequel is being made twelve years after the first film came out. Now the fact that there will be a sequel isn’t an unwelcome development, but the reservation is that not only may there not be as big of an audience for it as there might have been a few years ago, but it may be hard to replicate the success of the first one. However, Dumb and Dumber To showed that an unasked for sequel released years after the in-high-regard original can prove popular, even without critical acclaim.

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