Oh, fudge! Pour yourself a mug of Ovaltine, and make sure you don’t shoot your eye out because HBO Max‘s A Christmas Story Christmas teaser trailer is here! The nostalgia is running high with this one, folks, so hold onto your bunny pajamas and don’t get on the mall Santa’s naughty list. The long-gestating sequel stars Peter Billingsley, now 51, reprising his role as Ralphie Parker. The A Christmas Story Christmas teaser brings us on a tour of the Parker family living room before including a shot of Billingsley adjusting his character’s signature glasses.
In A Christmas Story Christmas, an adult Ralphie “returns to the house on Cleveland Street to deliver his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had growing up,” says the official logline. “With the same attention-to-real-life tone of the first, Ralphie reconnects with childhood friends, reconciles the passing of his Old Man and sows the seeds for the origins of the beloved holiday classic.”
Joining Billingsley for the 70s-set sequel are Ian Petrella (Randy), Zack Ward (Scut Farkus), Scott Schwartz (Flick), and R.D. Robb (Schwartz). Erinn Hayes (Kevin Can Wait) plays Ralphie’s wife, River Drosche (Miracle Workers) and Julianna Layne (Prodigal Son) star as their son and daughter, with Julie Hagerty (What About Bob?) reportedly playing Ralphie’s mom, originally played by Melinda Dillon.
A Christmas Story Chrismas won’t be the first sequel to the original movie as several TV movies followed as installments of American Playhouse. A Christmas Story director Bob Clark also returned with My Summer Story in 1994, and a direct-to-video sequel was released in 2012. Hopefully, this latest sequel has more imagination than any of the above-listed projects.
What do you think of the A Christmas Story Christmas teaser trailer? Are you excited about what Ralphie and his family have been up to all these years? What shenanigans await the Parker family this holiday? We’ll have to wait for a full trailer to know more.
A Christmas Story Christmas comes to HBO Max on November 17, 2022.
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