{"id":624657,"date":"2026-10-08T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624657\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T19:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T19:52:08","slug":"rooster-teeth-founders-reunite-for-christmas-horror-movie-bad-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624657\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooster Teeth Founders Reunite for Christmas Horror Movie ‘Bad Toys’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRooster Teeth<\/a> founders Matt Hullum and Burnie Burns have teamed up for a new Christmas horror-comedy movie, \u201cBad Toys,\u201d now in development.<\/p>\n

\n\tHullum serves as writer-director, while Burns is executive producer. According to an official description, \u201cBad Toys\u201d is inspired by \u201cmedieval Christmas elf folklore\u201d and asks, \u201cWhat if a mischievous Christmas elf brought you what you wanted when you were nice, but made you regret what you asked for if you were naughty?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPre-production is expected to begin in early 2027, and \u201cBad Toys\u201d is currently slated for a theatrical release around Christmastime of the same year. Flatiron Pictures\u2019 Suzanne Weinert serves as producer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAround the holidays, my wife loves to prank us by hiding Christmas elf dolls in unexpected places \u2014 including the knife drawer \u2014 and has given me quite a few jump scares over the years!\u201d Hullum said. \u201cI began researching ancient elf lore, mostly Scandinavian, and discovered that there is a rich and bizarre history of mischievous and even deadly elves spanning back centuries. \u2018Bad Toys\u2019 is my take on turning those spooky old fairy tales into a modern-day holiday adventure \u2026 and an excuse to reunite with some of my Rooster Teeth family and our millions of fans from YouTube and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRooster Teeth, launched in 2003, is an online entertainment label that quickly became a staple of early YouTube culture through the success of its flagship web series \u201cRed vs. Blue\u201d and offshoot channels like Achievement Hunter. The company was acquired by Otter Media in 2015, which in turn was acquired by AT&T and then Warner Bros. Burns exited Rooster Teeth in 2019, and the company closed its doors in 2024. In 2025, Burns came out of retirement to buy Rooster Teeth back from Warner Bros. and revived the brand.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe moment I heard Matt was launching a new project,\u201d Burns added, \u201cI jumped at the opportunity to collaborate again. It\u2019s always an honor to work together, and I can\u2019t wait to help bring his creative vision for \u2018Bad Toys\u2019 to the screen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rooster Teeth founders Matt Hullum and Burnie Burns have teamed up for a new Christmas horror-comedy movie, \u201cBad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69,306925],"class_list":["post-624657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rooster-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}