By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros have roped in actor Peter Billingsley to star within the sequel to the vacation traditional “A Christmas Story”.
Titled “A Christmas Story”, the movie will premiere on HBO Max.
According to Deadline, actor Julie Hagerty is in talks to play the function of Ralphie Parker’s mom.
A field workplace failure when it first premiered in 1983, “A Christmas Story” has turn out to be one of the vital common vacation motion pictures in Hollywood’s historical past.
The authentic, directed by Bob Clark, is centred on Ralphie (Billingsley), a Nineteen Forties child who desperately desires a Red Ryder BB rifle that everybody, together with the native mall Santa, tells him will shoot his eyes out.
The upcoming film will happen within the Seventies, with the grownup Ralphie bringing his household to his childhood house for Christmas.
“A Christmas Story Christmas” will likely be directed by Clay Kaytis from a script by Nick Schenk.
Billingsley will likely be producing the movie together with Vince Vaughn by way of their Wild West Picture Show Productions banner.
Production is ready to begin on the finish of February in Bulgaria.