In the past, Santa Claus has always been seen as a caring man, a gentle soul who wants nothing more than to bring joy and happiness to billions of children around the world. More recently, however, we’ve started to see something different. What started as a niche fantasy is increasingly becoming a reality. There’s really only one way to describe the change in Santa’s landscape. We have entered the era of Hot Santa.
What started with Kurt Russell in Netflix The Christmas Chronicles series, and has evolved well into the bear of a man who is David Harbor in theaters now in theaters violent night, we have now received something unexpected and not unwelcome. It’s a buff AF JK Simmons as quite possibly the meatiest Saint Nick seen on the big screen.
Always the hypeman, Dwayne Johnson returned to Instagram to share some behind-the-scenes footage from his upcoming holiday-themed movie, The Red, and showed photos of him spotting Simmons in the North Pole Gym, as well as perfectly positioned shots of Simmons flexing and posing for the camera. Truly, these are early Christmas presents for the thirsty Santaphiles of the world.
The Red has previously been described as “a cross-world, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy imagining a whole new universe to explore within the vacation genre”. Alongside Johnson, the film will also include the likes of Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Nick Kroll, Bonnie Hunt and Kiernan Shipka. Jake Kasdana privileged associate of Johnson, having achieved – highly acclaimed reviews and an extremely impressive worldwide box office – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: the next levelmade from a screenplay written by Chris Morganwho wrote many films of the fast furious universe, including Hobbs & Shaw, at which Johnson has, of course, compared to this movie.
The original idea for the film came from Hiram Garcia, president of production at Seven Bucks Productions. Johnson will need to move on to promotion quickly The Red like, with the news of his desired sequel to black adam – feature the man in black taking Henry Cavill‘s Superman – looks like he died before production could even begin, after the reported night of the long knives at DC studios under james gunn and Peter Saffron.
The Red is slated to launch on Prime Video during the 2023 holiday season. However, this ripped Santa might not come down the chimney, but smash through the back door instead. Happy holidays, really.
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