The Christmas season is all about marketing, and the folks at Broad Green Pictures seem to be taking that to heart. They are continuing to pump out the promo for “Bad Santa 2,” and in a week that has already seen a NSFW red-band trailer for the film, they’ve now dropped a cleaner cut. But rather than merely repeating the naughtier version just with some different edits, this trailer has lots of new scenes and jokes, though it makes you wonder what will be left to see when you buy your ticket later this year.
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At any rate, Billy Bob Thornton is back in the Santa suit and boozing it up, with this film finding his drunken lout embarking on a heist during the holiday, but one that will see him pairing up with a formidable foe: his mother. Here’s the official synopsis:
BAD SANTA 2 returns Academy Award®-winner BILLY BOB THORNTON to the screen as America’s favorite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (TONY COX), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is ‘the kid’ — chubby and cheery Thurman Merman (BRETT KELLY), a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie’s sliver of humanity.
Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Emmy-winner KATHY BATES, as Willie’s horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke. A super butch super bitch, Sunny raises the bar for the gang’s ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior. Willie is further burdened by lusting after the curvaceous and prim Diane, played by Emmy Award-nominee CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, the charity director with a heart of gold and libido of steel.
“Bad Santa 2” opens on November 23rd.