When reviving the Santa Clause franchise by the use of Disney+, the Powers That Be knew they’d have to clarify why a sure fan-favorite elf had been stored on the shelf for the final 20 years.
We’re speaking, in fact, about Bernard, a task originated by David Krumholtz in 1994’s The Santa Clause, reverse Tim Allen. Krumholtz reprised Bernard in the 2002 sequel The Santa Clause 2, at which level Bernard had taken underneath his wing a protégé named Curtis (performed by Spencer Breslin).
But 4 years later, when Disney got here a-knockin’ a couple of third movie — 2006’s critically reviled The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (we’re not being imply; Allen hates it, too) — Krumholtz was dedicated to the CBS procedural Numb3rs, and was unable to return. Curtis had assumed the place of head elf, and Bernard obtained nary a point out regardless of his a few years of service at the North Pole. (Rude!)
Thankfully, the scenario is remedied in the forthcoming sequel sequence The Santa Clauses (streaming Wednesday, Nov. 16), which sees Krumholtz slip again into Bernard’s pointy sneakers.
“He is in an episode,” sequence creator Jack Burditt confirms to TVLine. “He performs a pivotal half in instructing Scott some issues that possibly he didn’t know, both about the mantle of Santa Claus or himself.
“We’re playing with this idea that Scott doesn’t… know a lot about his role as Santa Claus,” Burditt explains. “He just knows how he became Santa Claus, and there is a lot of information withheld from him. Bernard unlocks a lot of that information when he comes back.”
Viewers can even study the place Bernard has been since he relinquished his duties as elf lieutenant. “You will know what happened to Bernard [between The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clauses],” fellow EP/director Jason Winer says. And sure, the sequence will handle “why he has aged unlike other elves.”
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