Nov 7 2008 Santa'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