Netflix’s ‘That Christmas’ Ushers in the Holidays with Official Trailer

December will kick off on Netflix in a flurry of animated holiday magic, when the new CG movie That Christmas premieres on December 4. The streamer today debuted the official trailer and a stocking’s worth of early look images from the project, which is based on the children’s books by BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually).

Produced by London-based Locksmith Animation (Ron’s Gone Wrong), the heartwarming family film marks the feature directorial debut of VES Award winner and Children’s & Family Emmy nominee Simon Otto, head of character animation on the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, supervising director of A Tale Dark & Grimm and director of the Love, Death + Robots episode “The Tall Grass.”

Synopsis:  That Christmas follows a series of entwined tales about love and loneliness, family and friends, and Santa Claus making a big mistake — not to mention an enormous number of turkeys!

That Christmas features the voices of Brian Cox (Santa), Fiona Shaw (Ms. Trapper), Jodie Whittaker (Mrs. Williams), Lolly Adefope (Mrs. McNutt), Alex Macqueen (Mr. Forrest), Katherine Parkinson (Mrs. Forrest), Sindhu Vee (Mrs. Mulji), India Brown (Bernadette), Zazie Hayhurst (Sam), Sienna Sayer (Charlie), Jack Wisniewski (Danny), Rosie Cavaliero (Mrs. Beccles), Paul Kaye (Yirrell), Guz Khan (Dasher), Andy Nyman (Mr. Beccles), Kuhu Agarwal (Nisha), Bronte Smith (Eve), Freddie Spry (Teddy) and Ava Talbot (Scarlett), with Bill Nighy (Bill) and Rhys Darby (Mr. McNutt).

The screenplay was written Richard Curtis & Peter Souter. Producers are Nicole P. Hearon (Moana, Frozen) and Adam Tandy (The Thick of It, Detectorists). Executive producers are Curtis, Mary Coleman, Natalie Fischer, Julie Lockhart, Elisabeth Murdoch, Bonnie Arnold, Lara Breay, Sarah Smith, Rebecca Cobb and Colin Hopkins. The original books were written by Curtis and illustrated by Rebecca Cobb.

The music is composed by John Powell, with an original song by Ed Sheeran, “Under The Tree.”