Farrelly Bros. on Reuniting With Jack Black for ‘Dear Santa’, ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Sequel Dreams and Why They’ll Always Defend ‘Shallow Hal’
variety.comWilliam Earl The Farrelly brothers have had a long career both collaborating (“Dumb and Dumber,” “There’s Something About Mary”) and helming projects individually (Peter’s “Green Book,” Bobby’s “Champions”).
They’re coming together again for the holidays with the new Paramount+ film “Dear Santa,” a naughty but sweet Christmas confection starring Jack Black as Satan, who is accidentally summoned by a boy named Liam (Robert Timothy Smith) who can’t spell when writing a letter to Kris Kringle.
Peter and Bobby Farrelly spoke with Variety about their favorite Christmas movies, the power of underdog stories, and which of their movies would be worth revisiting. Peter: Pete Jones and Kevin Barnett, who we work with a lot, brought us the idea and they said, “A kid’s writing a letter to Santa, but he misspells it and instead writes it to Satan.” We’re like, “We’ll buy that.
Ok, let’s do it.” It was like the “Snakes on a Plane” pitch. But what we didn’t realize is it’s a nice opening, but man, this is a complicated thing.
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