a surprise! Anaconda slides down the chimney for Christmas 2025

Grumble about new Anaconda The film has been around ever since At least 2020and In August We’ve learned that Paul Rudd and Jack Black She’s signed on to get an overhead look at the 1997 creature film starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, an outrageously camp Jon Voight, and an even more massive snake. And today: the surprise! It will be released on Christmas Day in 2025!

This ad is from Sony Pictures—describing what’s new Anaconda As a “re-imagined comedy” – it was accompanied by a video featuring Rudd and Black, who co-star in the film’s director and co-writer Tom Gormican (The astonishing weight of enormous talent).

“There will be a big snake, and it will tear!” Black promises

Last August, the story was teased as being about “a group of friends facing midlife crises who remake a favorite movie from their youth. They head to the rainforest, only to find themselves in a fight for their lives against natural disasters, giant snakes, and violent criminals. This sounds like… It definitely sounds like a “re-imagined comedy” rather than a remake of the original film, which follows a documentary crew who heads to the Amazon to track down an elusive giant snake — but realizes there’s an enemy in the form of a human (Voight (pronounced with a playful accent) with a Moby DickFixing on the pattern may be the biggest danger in the woods. It has since become a cult classic.

Gormican, who knows a thing or two about meta-comedy thanks The unbearable weight of enormous talent (starring Nicolas Cage as a version of himself, and Pedro Pascal as “Nick (sic) Cage’s biggest fan”), seems like the right creative talent behind the scenes for this new film. Anaconda. He also co-wrote this year’s Eddie Murphy Netflix comedy Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

And if Rudd and Black bring half the energy they show in this same movie trailer, this will be a really fun time. Christmas is traditionally one of the biggest release periods of the year, so having Sony ask when a giant snake-shaped comedy will be released is a promising sign indeed. Anaconda In theaters next Christmas: December 25, 2025.

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