The Christmas Chronicles 2 (Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn)

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Last year Netflix gave us an instant contender for the all-time-great movie Santas in The Christmas Chronicles – a Chris Columbus-produced festive adventure movie that cast none other than Kurt Russell as the man with the, er, bulging sack.

Neflix has just announced a sequel – The Christmas Chronicles 2 – coming in 2020. Not only will it see Russell return as Santa Claus, but in an exquisite bit of casting his real-life wife Goldie Hawn will play Mrs. Claus.

That’s not all – Columbus is going to direct this one himself, after handing the reins on the original to Clay Katis, with Ricky Baker himself, Julian Dennison, also joining the cast. He’ll play ‘the Belsnickel’ – which, according to a quick Google search, is “a crotchety, fur-clad Christmas gift-bringer figure”. In short, he’s a creepy piece of European folklore that’s only slightly lower on the scary-scale than Krampus.

EmpireOnline