In an announcement over at The Hollywood Reporter on January 20th, it was revealed that A Christmas Story is officially getting a sequel!
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. are joining forces to produce the movie. It has been nearly 40 years since the classic Christmas film was released in 1983. Peter Billingsley, who was the child star who played Ralphie, will be reprising his role as a grown-up Ralphie who is returning to his childhood home in the 1970s.
The sequel’s title is A Christmas Story Christmas. The movie will be coming out on HBO Max and is directed by Clay Kaytis. The director has previous experience with holiday movies, with The Christmas Chronicles created for Netflix under his belt. The script is written by Nick Schenk, a screenwriter known for his work on movies such as Narcos (2015) and The Mule (2018).
The film is being produced jointly by Peter Billingsley and Vince Vaughn through their company, Wild West Picture Show Productions.
This isn’t the first time a sequel to A Christmas Story has been produced.
Previous “sequels” include It Runs in the Family (1994), which in later releases of the film was renamed My Summer Story. In this sequel, Ralphie was played by Kieran Culkin and Charles Grodin played the Old Man. Another sequel titled A Christmas Story 2 came out in 2012, and it was a direct-to-video release that completely ignored the existence of the first sequel.
This new sequel is set 30 years after the original A Christmas Story plotline, with Ralphie as an adult now revisiting his childhood home on Cleveland Street to create the same magical Christmas experience for his children that he had as a child. The studio hopes to recreate the same slice-of-life tone that was present in the first movie while peppering in callbacks for fans of the classic film.
Production on A Christmas Story Christmas will begin in February in Hungary.
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‘A Christmas Story’ Sequel Is Really Happening—And It Will Star Adult Ralphie
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