Sssssurprise! Anaconda Is Slithering Down the Chimney for Christmas 2025

Rumblings astir a caller Anaconda movie person been astir since at slightest 2020, and in August we learned that Paul Rudd and Jack Black had signed connected for a meta-sounding instrumentality connected the 1997 carnal diagnostic starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, an outrageously campy Jon Voight, and an adjacent much outrageously tremendous snake. And today: surprise! It’s getting Christmas Day merchandise successful 2025!

This announcement from Sony Pictures—which describes the caller Anaconda arsenic “a reimagined comedy”—was accompanied by a video featuring a jubilantly giddy Rudd and Black, who co-star successful the movie from manager and co-writer Tom Gormican (The Incredible Weight of Massive Talent).

“There’s gonna beryllium a large fuckin’ snake, and it’s gonna rip!” Black promises.

Back successful August, the crippled was teased as  being astir “a group of friends facing mid-life crises who are remaking their favourite movie from their youth. They caput to the rainforest, lone to find themselves successful a combat for their lives against earthy disasters, elephantine snakes and convulsive criminals.” That decidedly sounds similar “a reimagined comedy” alternatively than a remake of the original, which follows a documentary unit that heads to the Amazon to way down an elusive elephantine snake—but realizes that a human-shaped foe (Voight doing a hilarious accent) with a Moby Dick-style fixation mightiness beryllium the biggest information successful the jungle. It’s since go a cult classic.

Gormican, who knows a happening oregon 2 astir meta-comedies acknowledgment to The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (starring Nicolas Cage arsenic a mentation of himself, and Pedro Pascal arsenic “Nick [sic] Cage’s biggest fan”), feels similar conscionable the close originative endowment down the scenes for this caller Anaconda. He besides co-wrote this year’s Eddie Murphy Netflix drama Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

And, if Rudd and Black bring fractional the vigor to the movie itself that they show successful this promo, it’ll beryllium a ripping bully clip indeed. Christmas is traditionally 1 of the biggest merchandise windows of the year, truthful for Sony to involvement its assertion connected the day for a elephantine snake drama is simply a promising motion indeed. Anaconda hits theaters adjacent Christmas: December 25, 2025.

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