Nov 7 2008Santa's Life Story: The CGI Movie
Hyde Park Entertainment, Toonz Entertainment, and Gang of 7 Animation are teaming up to produce a CGI-animated feature film version of L. Frank Baum's The Life and Aventures of Santa Claus. From Variety:
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has joined forces with Singapore-based Toonz Entertainment and Gang of 7 Animation to mount "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," a CGI-animated feature based on the book by L. Frank Baum.The film is expected to be ready for holiday 2010 theatrical release.
Story follows Santa's formative years, including a battle against the heart of evil that establishes the Santa mythology.
We already have one of those, right? A CGI Santa movie? We have to have that already. Don't we? How would it take us this long to get to that? Three Shreks with plans for more and we're just now making a computer-generated Santa? I have to be forgetting that we've done this, because that makes no sense.
Well, regardless, a CGI origin story should be perfect for taking away any of the remaining mystery that makes Santa magical. And if it keeps with the tradition of most CGI movies lately, it should also make him uncomfortable to look at, inappropriately sexualized, and closely associated with a terrible song! Everyone* wins!
*evil
Reader Comments
1. Steve - November 7, 2008 12:26 PM
Polar Express?
I don't understand sarcasm.
2. B - November 7, 2008 12:27 PM
We can expect great things from the company who brought us such classics as "Bringing Down the House" "Raising Helen" and "Dreamer".....
Don't get me wrong, I do apparently like some of there films, just not many.
And you're right...there has to be a CGI santa out there somewhere...it has to be done already....
3. wendy - November 7, 2008 12:59 PM
Santa likes to move it.
4. Elmo - November 7, 2008 2:40 PM
they better get a Danish guy to do his voice, or a well- minded American who at least tries to fake an accent.
I hate American Santa Clauses.. except the mall guys, they always understand....
5. Blaggers - November 7, 2008 3:59 PM
Santa Begins?
6. T.e. - November 7, 2008 4:57 PM
I'm hoping, to a lesser degree, that someday they will be able to digitally remake my childhood so that none of my fondest memories have been stolen, homogenized, and spat back out to gross-market conquest...
Merry Christmas, to one and all..
7. Charlie Caligula - November 7, 2008 7:20 PM
Must have flatulence jokes. He is fat, y'know.
8. Brian - November 8, 2008 9:29 PM
Santa: Year One
9. sully - November 9, 2008 5:49 PM
No, since it's an origin story he has to be skinny. But at the end there should be some joke where Santa is like, totally eating a whole pie, and Mrs. Claus is like, "You shouldn't eat all that pie. You might get fat some day!" And then Santa's all, "Psh, whatever woman. My metabolism is faster than Dasher. And his name's freakin' Dasher so that says a lot, right?" And then the Smashmouth theme song plays (or I guess Jonas Brothers now... It's hard to keep up with today's shit bands). OH! AFI, totally. They would be perfect.
10. Pope K - November 10, 2008 11:37 AM
It's actually a good book. Just hoping like hell it isn't completely cutsied.
11. Stevie - November 10, 2008 10:18 PM
Is Santa trying to give himself a bj in that picture?