CUMBERLAND – Cumberland High School graduates Peter and Bobby John Farrelly, known for making movies including “There’s Something About Mary” and “Dumb and Dumber,” have a new movie set to hit screens Nov. 25, ” Dear Santa .”
The movie is the Farrelly brothers’ first collaboration since “Dumb and Dumber To” in 2014, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Starring Jack Black, directed by Bobby and written by Peter with Ricky Blitt, the not-your-usual-Christmas movie untangles what happens when a boy writing a letter to Santa makes a typo and accidentally addresses it to “Satan.”
Black appears, and comical complications ensue.
What is ‘Dear Santa’ about?
Liam Turner wants to prove to his friends that Santa Claus exists, so he writes to the jolly old elf, albeit with a critical spelling error, and winds up summoning Satan.
Bobby Farrelly told Entertainment Weekly they cast Jack Black in the role because they wanted someone who could play “diabolical, but in a fun way,” adding that Black was the first and only choice. “There’s a little bit of mischievous to him at all times, but he’s eminently likable, and that’s just Jack,” Bobby Farrelly told the magazine. “We never wanted to make it a horror movie or something like that. We wanted it to be comical. … And Jack was the perfect guy.”