EXCLUSIVE: Grey Gardens and The Vow filmmaker Michael Sucsy is teaming with The Get Down composer Elliott Wheeler on the New York City holiday musical A Lot Like Christmas which New Republic Pictures will make.In A Lot Like Christmas, the adult, estranged children of EGOT-winner Riva DeLange — a woman synonymous with Christmas — hate the holidays because of their mother.
Riva revives her once-famous, Christmas special in an attempt to reconnect with them. Sucsy and Wheeler co-wrote the screenplay and the music and lyrics.
Sucsy will directNew Republic Pictures’ Brian Oliver and Brad Fischer and Sucsy’s HungryDuck Productions will produce. New Republic co-financed and produced the Oscar and Golden Globe winning Paramount feature musical
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