Netflix Sets Premiere Date For 'The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday' Special
Yeah, that ten year partnership anniversary gets them DreamWorks's next holiday special
Netflix has announced that The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday, a prequel Christmas special to DreamWorks Animation’s 2022 film The Bad Guys, will premiere on the streamer on November 30.
While the movie followed a group of anthropomorphic criminals, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Snake, Ms. Tarantula, Mr. Shark and Mr. Piranha, enact a plan to escape prison time by putting on a reformation ruse that they start to genuinely get into, this special, by being a prequel, happens before all that. “There’s nothing the Bad Guys love more than Christmas morning,” the official synopsis says, “because while everyone is home opening presents, it’s the perfect time to execute their city-wide holiday heist. But when Christmas is unexpectedly canceled, the Bad Guys must do the unthinkable: reignite the city’s holiday spirit by giving instead of taking.”
As for the cast, one might expect the main characters, voiced respectively by Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson and Anthony Ramos, to have their voices be reprised. After all, both recent Trolls Christmas specials, Holiday and Holiday in Harmony, had the movie cast reprise, and is in fact very common across franchises, as A-list stacked as they are (well, except Eddie Murphy for Scared Shrekless). Here however, it’s actually worse than typical of Dreamworks series. While they might have a James Hong as Mr. Ping or Ron Funches as Cooper in a sea of recasts, nobody is back for this special. This voice cast includes Michael Godere as Wolf, Ezekiel Ajeigbe as Shark, Raul Ceballos as Piranha, Chris Diamantopoulos (Mickey Mouse in the Rudish shorts) as Snake, Mallory Low as Tarantula, Zehra Fazal (Amphibia’s General Yunan, My Adventures with Superman’s Livewire) as Tiffany Fluffit (replacing Lilly Singh), Keith Silverstein (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir’s Hawk Moth) as Gary and Shaved Ice Vendor, and Kari Wahlgren as DJ Trudy Tude.
Produced by DreamWorks Animation Television, the special premieres less than two weeks after Trolls Band Together is released in theaters, and is directed by Bret Haaland, who has worked on such series as Futurama, and at DreamWorks, Father of the Pride, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, The Penguins of Madagascar, and All Hail King Julien. He executive produces with Katherine Nolfi.
Source: Deadline