The Santa Clause Series For Disney+ Announced With Tim Allen Returning
 

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The creator of Last Man Standing is reuniting with series star Tim Allen for a new Disney+ series set in the world of The Santa Clause. The film franchise, which featured Allen as a selfish man who learned to be more loving when he accidentally killed Santa Claus and had to take over the role, has earned almost $500 million at the box office since it began in 1994. The last installment in the series, which featured Martin Short as a villainous take on Jack Frost, was released in 2006. Allen will executive producer, along with Scott Burditt, the creator of Last Man Standing, who will serve as a showrunner.

The Disney Branded Television series is a production of 20th Television.

Allen won a People's Choice Award for his portrayal of Scott Calvin, Santa Claus's proxy, complete with expanding waistline, rosy cheeks and snow-white whiskers in the 1994 film The Santa Clause. He went on to play the role in two sequels, 2002's The Santa Clause 2 (which saw Santa forced to find a Mrs. Claus) and 2006's The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.

In the Disney+ series, Scott Calvin is on the brink of his 65th birthday, and realizing that he can't be Santa forever. He's starting to lose a step in his Santa duties, and more importantly, he's got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the Pole. With a lot of elves, children, and family to please, Scott sets out to find a suitable replacement Santa while preparing his family for a new adventure in a life south of the pole.

Gotta find out what happened to all the Mrs. Clause when their husbands gets necked.

The first movie is very different from the sequels, u wonder what direction they'll take. I personally think the santa clause movie trilogy has Christmas mythology world building on done in the last movie that I'd like to see explore, dictator santa was a cool villain too, so I'd go that route instead of the more Xmas like first movie.

I'll definitely be watching but there's no real reason why this is going to exist. I mean creatively, I'm guessing streaming numbers for the movie must've been good for this to have been greenlit

Cue angry SJWs who want to cancel the guy for...whatever...does it even matter at this point?

There's apparently been talks of a 4th Santa Clause movie for years, I guess this is their compromise.

They give him this and not Home Improvement?

I'm suspicious. If they're billing it as basically a passing of the torch right off the bat... maybe we should take them at their word.

... Between this and Disney making Ice Age 6 after closing down Bluesky, they really do seem to milk whatever they can for D+...

Im not sure they're really milking something that has been dormant since 2006.

Wonder if Wendy Crewson, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, Elizabeth Mitchell, will reprise roles in this. Martin Short, with Allen in Jungle 2 Jungle, was in Escape, wonder if he'll reprise. Wonder if Tom Hanks may make a cameo.

Not in the sense that The Santa Clause is being milked, more in the sense that Disney is digging through whatever IPs they have to make sure D+ always have fresh content with some brand name value. In the case of Ice Age 6, the demise of Blue Sky really should have brought an end to that series, yet Disney had to have something on Disney+ that wasn't just more main Disney/Lucas/FOX/Marvel...

I mean isnt that the point though? Gotta give ppl a reason to keep watching on the app.

wasn't he basically confirmed as immortal, meaning he could do it forever unless he dies?

I WANT it to be good.. but it's modern disney.

That’s what Disney does, instead of coming up with something new and fresh, they ruin already great original IPs with crap remakes

How’s he supposed to die then if he’s immortal? Is it like a Highlander thing? :lol:

It was established in the 3rd movie that he could simply no longer want to do it if he so chose, hence the "escape clause" in the title.

God I need to watch the movies again, so at least I know wtf is going on when this starts lol