BAD SANTA 2 Red-Band Trailer: Santa's Back and Meaner Than Ever
Broad Green Pictures and Miramax have unveiled the first red-band trailer for Bad Santa 2, the Christmas sequel that sees Billy Bob Thornton returning to reprise his role as mall Santa Willie Soke thirteen years after the original. I'm sure Brett Kelly — the actor who plays Thurman Merman — is a nice guy in real life, but it's vaguely unsettling seeing him as a twenty-one year old here and not really seeming as if he's matured much during the intervening years. And the first mention of Christina Hendricks' character is...well, pretty obvious. Check it out and see for yourselves.
BAD SANTA 2 returns Academy Award®-winner BILLY BOB THORNTON to the screen as America's favorite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (TONY COX), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is 'the kid' - chubby and cheery Thurman Merman (BRETT KELLY), a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity.
Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Emmy-winner KATHY BATES, as Willie's horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke. A super butch super bitch, Sunny raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior. Willie is further burdened by lusting after the curvaceous and prim Diane, played by Emmy Award-nominee CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, the charity director with a heart of gold and libido of steel.
You better watch out: BAD SANTA 2 is coming to town.
