HBO Max shared a new trailer for A Christmas Story Christmas, sequel to the popular movie from 1983. An initial trailer, offered up two weeks ago, showed clips from the original movie, and a fleeting shot of adult Peter Billingsley’s face, and his trademark spectacles. The new trailer, at two minutes long, offers clips from the new movie, including Ralphie, Flick and Schwartz as adults, and Flick triple-dog-daring Schwartz to embark on a precipitous sled venture.
Billingsley played Ralphie in the original. In the new movie, he returns to his old house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a memorable Christmas. In the process, he learns to appreciate the efforts his gruff old man went through to make Christmas shine every year.
A Christmas Story Christmas is on HBO Max November 17. Clay Kaytis directs and Nick Schenk wrote the screenplay.
Erinn Hayes plays Sandy Parker, Zack Ward is Scut Farkus, Scott Schwartz is Flick and R.D. Robb is Schwartz.
Bob Clark directed the original film, based on Jean Shepherd's books. It depicts a boy named Ralphie who desperately wants a BB gun for Christmas, though his mother, teacher and others fear he will shoot his eye out. Billingsley was in the cast with Melinda Dillon and Darren McGavin. McGavin died in 2006. ■
