A quirky new holiday film is on its way to theaters next week. Pottersville is next in the line of light-hearted regional comedies populated with plenty of familiar faces. Genre fans can find Midnight Special and Man of Steel’s Michael Shannon as a friendly businessman who gets mistaken for Bigfoot when he gets drunk and stumbles through town in a gorilla costume. This sets up an opportunity to perpetuate the story as a way to bring tourists into the town, a town which has fallen on hard times.
The trailer for the film is filled with holiday cheer and that unique blend of kooky characters and winter spirit you only find in the odd (stress on the word “odd”) attempt at a holiday keeper. Or on the Hallmark Channel. The man of many faces, Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Star Trek Nemesis) stands out in particular in the trailer as the town’s dopey sheriff.
The rest of the cast includes Firefly, Man Men, and Life’s Christina Hendricks, Ant-Man and Jurassic World’s Judy Greer, Night at the Museum and Bob’s Burgers’ Thomas Lennon, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Snow White and the Huntsman’s Ian McShane. Pottersville gets a bit of a jump on another holiday film for the season, The Man Who Invented Christmas starring Dan Stevens (previewed here at borg.com).
Check out the trailer for the new holiday film Pottersville:
