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‘The Santa Clauses’: How Creator Jack Burditt Suspects He And Tim Allen Were Hilariously Tricked Into Doing The Disney+ Comedy
16.11.2022 - 20:09 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Jack Burditt assumed he had the blessing of Tim Allen when he was first asked to adapt The Santa Clause franchise for Disney+. But that wasn’t exactly the case.
Flashback to May of 2020, when a studio executive reached out to the Emmy-winning sitcom writer to see if he could find a way to bring Allen’s Scott Calvin, aka Kris Kringle, to the small screen. Naturally, Burditt wanted to know if Allen was on board, especially given the way they last parted ways. Burditt created Last Man Standing for Allen in 2011 but walked away from the then-ABC comedy during its first season after a death occurred in his family.
“Tim has always been nice to me since, but in my mind you’re usually not eager to work with a person who jumped ship the last time you worked together,” recalls Burditt, who never returned to the hit sitcom that ended up lasting until 2021. But the executive assured Burditt that Allen liked him doing it.
Cut to two years later when production finally began on The Santa Clauses, which follows Scott (Allen) as he begins the search for a worthy replacement so he can retire. That’s when Burditt discovered the real truth about the show’s mysterious beginnings. “I heard that at some point Tim was told, ‘hey, Jack Burditt has this idea to do Santa Clause as a series. And he was like, ‘really?’ I don’t quite know the timeline, but Tim and I might have been played by Disney. I mean, each of us hearing the other was on board before either one of us was actually on board? That’s Hollywood.”
Though he may have been creatively misinformed at the start, Burditt never really questioned whether The Santa Clause could make a good series. “It’s been 28 years since the first movie so he would be right around 65 when most
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