Working Title is developing holiday film School For Santas as a vehicle for actor James Corden. The movie will reteam Corden with One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean who is scripting. A director has yet to be named. School For Santas follows a down-on-his-luck dad who needs to find his inner Father Christmas to win back his kids. Shooting will take place next year in New York and London. Corden won a Best Actor Tony Award for One Man, Two Guvnors earlier this year. Since then, the Gavin & Stacey co-creator and star has booked roles in Keira Knightley pic Can A Song Save Your Life? and in David Frankel’s One Chance, playing Paul Potts, the British cell phone salesman who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007. Kick-Ass producer Kris Thykier is producing School For Santas and One Chance.

I am so tickled by this idea. A school for Santas?! This is just the sort of film I can bring the whole family to without having to be bombarded by crude language, violence or a bare buttocks on screen. Thanks Working Title!
That’s what they want you to think, Marcy. In reality it is a blood and guts drenched, NC-17 rated, snuff-o-rama fest of USMC drill sergeant swearing. With a Happy Meal attached.
It’s nice to see James Corden doing so well. I’m a big fan of the Gavin & Stacey series.