Red One (film)
2024 film by Jake Kasdan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2024 film by Jake Kasdan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Red One is a 2024 American Christmas action-adventure film directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Chris Morgan, from an original story by Hiram Garcia. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel, and J. K. Simmons. Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Dany Garcia, Morgan, Kasdan, and Melvin Mar are the film's producers.
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| Directed by | Jake Kasdan |
| Screenplay by | Chris Morgan |
| Story by | Hiram Garcia |
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| Cinematography | Dan Mindel |
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| Music by | Henry Jackman |
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Running time | 123 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $250 million[2] |
The project is seen as the first of a Christmas franchise, produced by Amazon MGM Studios in association with Seven Bucks Productions, Chris Morgan Productions, and The Detective Agency.[3][4]
Red One was released internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 6 and is scheduled to be released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on November 15, 2024.[5]
Callum Drift, head of Santa Claus's security, requests to retire after one last Christmas run, as he has become disillusioned with increased bad behavior in the world, exemplified by the growth of Santa's Naughty List. On Christmas Eve, an infiltration team breaks into the North Pole complex and kidnaps Santa. Callum notifies Director Zoe Harlow of MORA (Mythological Oversight and Restoration Authority) about the kidnapping, and her team discovers that the North Pole's secret location was found by Jack O'Malley, a mercenary hacker who claims to be able to find anything in the world.
Zoe has Jack apprehended for questioning, but Jack didn't know the information he hacked was related to Santa, and merely sent said information to an anonymous buyer. Zoe offers to double Jack's payment if he helps them find Santa. Callum reluctantly teams up with Jack to find Santa, first by tracking down the broker who arranged the deal between Jack and the kidnapper. The broker tells them that the kidnapper is Gryla, the winter witch. Gryla becomes aware of their conversation and sends her snowmen to attack them, though Callum and Jack are able to defeat them.
Callum suspects that Gryla might be working with Krampus, Santa's estranged brother, who is also Gryla's ex-lover. Callum and Jack break into Krampus' lair but are captured. Callum appeals to Krampus to help his brother, who misses him, but Krampus refuses. Despite being allowed to leave, Jack stays and persuades Krampus to play Krampusschlap with Callum, during which Jack recovers Callum's magic gauntlet and returns it to him, allowing the pair to escape.
Gryla and her sons have Santa kept in a vault that siphons his magic and keeps him unconscious. Gryla duplicates the glaskafig, a magical snow globe, with the intention of ridding the world of naughty children by imprisoning them forever. Gryla decides to test the snow globes on Jack and his estranged son Dylan. She sends each a snow globe that imprisons them and returns to her lair. Jack and Dylan, inside their snow globes, are placed side by side, and the pair have a heart-to-heart conversation that, by making them "nicer", causes the snow globes to break and free them.
As Zoe placed a tracker on Jack earlier, she and Callum find that Jack has been brought to the North Pole complex. They realize that Gryla, her extraction team, and Santa never left the North Pole. Callum and Zoe go to the North Pole and release Mrs. Claus and Callum's other security staff, who have been kept prisoner. In Santa's old workshop, they find Jack and Dylan, as well as the toy-duplicating equipment that Gryla used to duplicate the snow globes.
Gryla prepares to leave with an unconscious Santa, as she intends to use his sleigh to distribute the snow globes. A fight ensues, and Gryla is stopped by Callum and Jack, with an assist from Krampus, who arrives to help. Santa recovers and acknowledges his brother, while Gryla is sealed inside one of her own globes and turned over to Zoe's custody.
With Gryla defeated, everyone rapidly prepares for the night's Christmas run. Santa invites Jack and Dylan to accompany him on Christmas Eve, which they accept. During the successful run, Callum watches Jack regain his wonder and build a relationship with Dylan; this convinces him not to retire.
Hiram Garcia at Seven Bucks Productions conceived the idea for the film,[7] which was developed into a screenplay by Chris Morgan for Jake Kasdan to direct.[8] Chris Evans joined the cast in January 2022.[9] In September 2022, Kiernan Shipka was added to the cast.[10] Lucy Liu, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, J. K. Simmons, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel and Bonnie Hunt joined the cast the following month, with Ellis revealing her and Simmons' involvement on Instagram.[11][12][13][14] Dwayne Johnson was paid $50 million for his involvement.[15]
Filming began in October 2022 in Atlanta and wrapped in February 2023.[12][16] Filming ran into issues with Johnson, who was an average of seven to eight hours late to film his scenes and missed several days of shooting. These delays reportedly increased the budget by $50 million to a total of $250 million, which Garcia disputed.[2]
Red One was originally scheduled to be released on Prime Video worldwide in time for Christmas 2023.[17] The release was delayed from December 20, 2023, until November 15, 2024, with the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike cited as the reason, along with the film now getting a worldwide theatrical release.[18][19] Amazon MGM will distribute it in the United States, while Warner Bros. Pictures will handle the film's international release.[20] In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it was released on November 6, 2024.[21] In Latin America, it was released on November 7, 2024,[22] with pre-release advance screenings starting October 31, 2024.[23]
Footage of Red One was first shown at CinemaCon in April 2024 to journalists selected by Johnson's publicist, but they were not allowed to write about what they saw.[2]
According to Boxoffice Pro, Red One is projected to gross $20–40 million in its domestic opening weekend.[24]
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with 33% of 33 critics have given the film a positive review with an average rating of 4.2/10.[25] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 36 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[26]
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