{"id":862513,"date":"2026-08-20T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862513\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:40:10","slug":"the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus-movie-in-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862513\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus&#8217; Movie In Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/monarch-media\/\" id=\"auto-tag_monarch-media\" data-tag=\"monarch-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monarch Media<\/a> has enlisted <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kali-bailey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kali-bailey\" data-tag=\"kali-bailey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kali Bailey<\/a> to adapt the screenplay for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus\" data-tag=\"the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus<\/a>, a live-action feature adaptation of the children\u2019s book by L. Frank Baum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFirst published in 1902, Baum\u2019s book follows Santa Claus from an abandoned baby in a magical forest near Oz, to his beloved role of spreading peace, love and lots of toys at Christmastime. Recognized as one of the greatest fantasy writers of the 20th century, Baum is best known for his 14-book series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which of course inspired the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMonarch principals Steve Barnett, Alan Powell and Vicky Patel will produce the new movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis isn\u2019t Bailey\u2019s first time working with the Monarch Media team, having co-written the company\u2019s coming-of-age film\u00a0A Week Away, which spawned the Angel Network series of the same name. She went on to co-direct multiple episodes of the spinoff series and also wrote and directed the Angel Network sci-fi film\u00a0The Lightning Code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpeaking to the origins of the Life and Adventures movie, Monarch\u2019s Barnett said: \u201cI\u2019ve been obsessed with the origins of Santa Claus for a long time, so discovering that the incredible L. Frank Baum had explored that backstory was really exciting. Santa is one of the few fictional, global icons, and this story taps into that shared mythology. Kali has created a sweeping, four-quadrant adventure that feels timeless yet fresh \u2014 a big, emotional ride that will connect with everyone around the world, across cultures and generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMonarch\u2019s credits include producing the Richard Linklater film\u00a0Hit Man starring Glen Powell and the animated feature\u00a0Tangles starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Seth Rogen and others, which premiered to acclaim at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival. Their comedy\u00a0Babies, directed by Lauren Miller Rogen and starring Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, David Strathairn, Sharon Stone, Ed Helms and Issa Rae, is slated to premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival and will be released theatrically this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMonarch is also producing an untitled Nick Jonas holiday rom-com for Netflix, to be directed by Ari Sandal, and is currently prepping a remake of coming-of-age film\u00a0A Walk to Remember.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBailey is repped by First Story Entertainment and attorney Joshua Lastine of Lastine Entertainment Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Monarch Media has enlisted Kali Bailey to adapt the screenplay for\u00a0The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,432078,432079,344,432080],"class_list":["post-862513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-kali-bailey","tag-monarch-media","tag-movies","tag-the-life-and-adventures-of-santa-claus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}