{"id":21338,"date":"2012-07-31T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=21338"},"modified":"2012-07-31T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T23:09:56","slug":"hot-tub-time-machine-director-steve-pink-up-for-bad-santa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/31\/hot-tub-time-machine-director-steve-pink-up-for-bad-santa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Director Steve Pink Up For BAD SANTA 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BadSanta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21344\" title=\"BadSanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BadSanta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BadSanta.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/BadSanta-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Billy Bob Thorton may be getting close to putting on that Santa suit again. <strong>Hot Tub Time Machine<\/strong> director Steve Pink is reportedly in early talks to rewrite and direct Dimension Films\u2019 <strong>Bad Santa 2<\/strong>. Previously, Johnny Rosenthal, whose action comedy script <strong>Iron Jack<\/strong> made it onto the Black List a few years back, had turned in a draft for the project.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to directing <strong>Hot Tub Time Machine<\/strong>, Pink also served as co-writer on the John Cusack films <strong>Grosse Point Blank<\/strong> and <strong>High Fidelity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dimension is supposedly looking at a December 2013 release for the film, so I would expect production to start up early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/07\/steve-pink-to-helm-bad-santa-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The sequel has finally found a director.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/31\/hot-tub-time-machine-director-steve-pink-up-for-bad-santa-2\/\" title=\"HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Director Steve Pink Up For BAD SANTA 2\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3931,3854,2546],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bad-santa-2","9":"tag-billy-bob-thornton","10":"tag-steve-pink"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21338"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=21338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}