{"id":32392,"date":"2021-09-16T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32392"},"modified":"2021-09-16T20:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T02:08:34","slug":"a-boy-called-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-boy-called-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy Called Christmas Debuts in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new film titled <em>A Boy Called <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em> will make its international debut in November in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and China. The film is also slated to be added to Netflix but no further details are known at this time of when that will happen. Here is the trailer:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_br5jCFVyM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the story of a young boy called Nikolas, who sets out to look for his father. His father, in turn, is looking for a village of elves. And there\u2019s the small matter of a reindeer coming along with him for the journey. The story is an adaptation of author Matt Haig\u2019s bestselling novel <em>A Boy Called <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Downton Abbey\u2019s Maggie Smith will also star, alongside Kristen Wiig, Jim Broadbent (Paddington 1 &amp; 2), Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water, Paddington 1 &amp; 2), Michiel Huisman (of The Age of Adaline and The Haunting of Hill House fame), as well as newcomer Henry Lawfull, who will play protagonist Nikolas.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolas\u2019 expedition to find elves leads him to discover <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> itself, with all its delightful trimmings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/a-boy-called-christmas.jpg\" alt=\"A Boy Called Christmas\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/a-boy-called-christmas.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/a-boy-called-christmas-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/a-boy-called-christmas-1030x579.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/a-boy-called-christmas-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new film titled A Boy Called Christmas will make its international debut in November in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany and China. The film is also slated to be added to Netflix but no further details are known at this time of when that will happen. Here is the trailer: It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32393,"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":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,2],"tags":[891],"class_list":["post-32392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-movies","category-christmas-news","tag-a-boy-called-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32392","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}