{"id":23441,"date":"2015-10-30T20:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T02:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23441"},"modified":"2015-10-30T20:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T02:18:58","slug":"bad-santa-2-coming-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/bad-santa-2-coming-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Santa 2 Coming Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/bad-santa-2-to-begin-filming-soon\/\"><strong>we posted last May<\/strong><\/a> Bad <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> will get a sequel and Billy Bob Thornton is in. The project got the go ahead this week and it was announced that filming will begin in January with hopes of a holiday 2016 release. <\/p>\n<p>Thornton will reprise his role as the despicable criminal Willie Stokes who pretends to be <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus at various malls in order to gain access to stores on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Eve and steal as much as he can.<\/p>\n<p>Produced on a $23 million budget, Bad <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> grossed over $76 million worldwide, earning mostly favorable reviews. &#8220;It could become a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> perennial for Scrooges of all ages,&#8221; wrote Peter Travers in his Rolling Stone review. <\/p>\n<p>The film has sharply divided the movie going public &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> fans tend to really dislike the film and deplore Thornton&#8217;s portrayal of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus while dark comedy fans appreciate the crude humor and poke-in-the-eye Thornton gives to the iconic gift bringer. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless of where you stand be forewarned that the original and no doubt the sequel will be filled with adult themes, sexual content and loads of f-bombs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we posted last May Bad Santa will get a sequel and Billy Bob Thornton is in. The project got the go ahead this week and it was announced that filming will begin in January with hopes of a holiday 2016 release. Thornton will reprise his role as the despicable criminal Willie Stokes who pretends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":35,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[392,198,393],"class_list":["post-23441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-movies","tag-bad-santa-2","tag-billy-bob-thornton","tag-christmas-2016-new-release-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}