Peter and Bobby Farrelly‘s Christmas comedy, Dear Santa, starring Jack Black, has finally arrived after a decade-long journey. Dear Santa follows the story of Liam (Robert Timothy Smith), a young boy with dyslexia who thinks that Santa Claus “is probably not real.” Still, he decides to write Santa a letter, but a spelling error has dire results. Instead of addressing the envelope to the jolly bearded gift distributor, Liam writes “Satan,” summoning Black’s character, who begins pretending he is Santa. During a recent conversation with Variety, the brothers discussed where the idea for Dear Santa was born and why it took them ten years to get the movie “just right:”
The Farrelly brothers wanted ‘Dear Santa’ (which follows Jack Black’s Satan pretending to be Santa) to have “heart and an uplifting message.” Read More