Posted on 01/21/2022 7:58:43 PM PST by Trillian
Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story when he was only 12, will be returning to lead a sequel to the perennial holiday favorite.
The 50-year-old child star–turned–filmmaker will be reprising his role in the new film, which is expected to take place when Ralphie is an adult in the 1970s, The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Thursday.
In addition to starring in the sequel to the 1983 classic — titled A Christmas Story Christmas — Billingsley will produce for its production companies Legendary and Warner Bros.
The Christmas Chronicles director Clay Kaytis is attached to direct the film, which will be released on Warner's HBO Max streaming service.
Billingsley will be joined by his longtime friend Vince Vaughn to produce A Christmas Story Christmas for their company Wild West Picture Show Productions.
The original Christmas Story was an episodic period piece set sometime in the late 1930s to early 1940s that follows nine-year-old Ralphie as he navigates school and family relationships in a fictional Indiana town while dreaming of getting a Red Ryder BB rifle for Christmas.
In the '70s-set sequel, Ralphie will return home to his old house on Cleveland Street to give his own children the same kind of 'magical Christmas' he experienced as a child.
The original film was lauded for its realistic production design, which impeccably matched the time period and the Midwestern setting, and the publication writes that the new film will try to adopt a similar style.
Adult Ralphie will reunite with some of his childhood friends featured in the original movie while also trying to move on from the death of his father, often referred to as The Old Man in the original and played by Darren McGavin.
Although the original was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio, with some additional
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It’s MAJOR AWARD!
I figured they would cancel the old version, so I bought it on DVD just after the New Year. Not sure how this one will turn out.
No confidence, but I hope it’s better than say, the Gilligan’s Island reunion.
Will he or his brother be gay, or a tranny?? And will he have saved his pink rabbit jammies that his aunt made for him?
They could probably get Bill Barr to play grown-up Ralphie at a cheaper rate than Billingsley.
NOTAFINGA!
Wasn’t there already a sequel to the movie?
39, this year, to be exact. It’s my favorite Christmas Film. I have a full sized “Major Award” up year round in my big window.
Bob Clark would direct it, but he was killed in a traffic accident by an illegal.
And Vince is conservative.
Here is a funny Vince deal:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+vince+vaugn+bill+burr&t=fpas&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4am8Dsn5eMY
its not my favorite Christmas movie but it did represent middle class America...
those monstrous snow suits....the furniture and the kitchen...the Santa parade...
That’s the spirit!
Buncha curmudgeons here! Pay no attn to them. :)
Maybe for the new one they can include a Krampus parade?
Um.....this could be good. Or it could be bad. And I hate to tinker with a classic. They tend to be bad.
I don’t think so, but Billingsley played the elf toy room manager, Ming-Ming, in the movie “Elf.” (The “cotton-headed ninny muggins” scene.)
They won’t allow adult Ralphie to use his
Red Rider gun—you’ll shoot your eye out, man!
There was a sequel made called My Summer
Story. It was ok not huge.
Been to the A Christmas Story house in Cleveland.
Jean Shepherd (author)died in 99.
Yes My Summer Story
“Maybe we can cast Alec Baldwin as
Scut Farkus and—hello? Hello? Geez, the guy hung up on me”
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