Mid December of 1994, the Farrelly brothers went on to set cinemas all over the world alight with their raunchy feature directorial debut – Dumb and Dumber. And so it’s fitting that Dear Santa, their first feature team-up after a decade, is out just three weeks to the 30th anniversary of the original Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels buddy comedy.
Over the years, the brothers from Rhode Island, Peter and Bobby, have been active; the former received two Oscars as the author of the script and director of Green Book (2018). That same year, Bobby also penned and directed the fairly unknown Woody Harrelson starring champions (2023) comedy-drama film while also either writing or directing a handful of others until then.
But the brothers have still been staying in touch in the ten years since the final time they graced the screen in Dumb and Dumber To, the sequel to the 20th anniversary of the film that made them stars. They returned to television in 2018 by virtue of Peter and Bobby Mort’s already existing dramedy LOUDERMILK and had been actively developing a musical adaptation for their most commercially successful movie, There’s Something About Mary (1998) for years.
“It was a complete coincidence [we met for the movie which came out just before the release of Dumb and Dumber’s anniversary],” Bobby Farrelly confirms to The Hollywood Reporter for Dear Santa on Paramount+. We did Dumb and Dumber in 1994 and then 20 years later we shot a sequel [Dumb and Dumber To]. Perhaps during the 40th of that moment that we’ll be able to give the viewers another sequel.”
Apart from Northern Pictures’ Dear Santa starring Jack Black the Channel produced a comedy-drama movie for which Bobby directed and Peter co-wrote with Ricky Blitt. Dan Ewen originally pitched this movie idea at the beginning of his career 12 years prior to filming a story about a dyslexic boy who mixes up Satan’s address for Santa’s.
Peter getting brutally explicit uses a story from his direct experience of a previous lover to give … the lesson of how good, lifelong partners going after personal achievements in various fields can rediscover just how much the teamwork merits. He also still consider the possibility of making another movie with Bobby as co-director.
“I remember sitting there and thinking to myself ‘Oh boy, I wish Bobby was sitting next to me right now’” Peter Farrelly confirms. If Bobby was on Green Book, I can promise you that it would have been a little tasteful[10]. I can’t explain how, but I am certain that things would have improved because he always made things improve.
The theatrically released comedy is discussed below by the brothers Farrelly in the conversation that the former had with THR.
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