After **Arthur Christmas **and now this, Jim Broadbent will have to be careful he doesn’t end up typecast as Santa Claus (coming in 2016: Mike Leigh’s Kitchen Sink Santa!). He seems happy to fill out the red suit and beard for Get Santa, though, and the trailer is now online.
Looking for all the world like Miracle On 34th Street given a more cynical British twist, Get Santa is set a few days before Christmas and finds the jolly figure in a bit of a bind. See, Santa was test-driving his brand new sleigh when he crashed in London. Now the reindeer are wandering through the city and the man himself has ended up in a garden shed, where he’s discovered by 9 year-old Tom (Kit Connor).
Being a helpful sort, Tom doesn’t immediately hold him for ransom and demand all the toys in the world, but instead contacts his father Steve (Rafe Spall) to try and help the big FC return to Lapland. A quest that isn’t helped when Santa is arrested…
With Christopher Smith on writing and directing duties and the likes of Jodie Whittaker, Warwick Davis, Stephen Graham and Ewen Bremner aboard, Get Santa is scheduled to arrive on December 5. But you can always watch the trailer now, because it’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas, right? Anyone? Hello?
Oh, fine. We’re off to watch Scrooged anyway.