The Santa Clauses
Summary
After a successful first time of year packed full of Christmas spirit and nostalgia , The Santa Clausesmade its grand takings to Disney+ on November 8 . The first three episodes are presently available to pelt , with new instalment dropping every Wednesday until the finale on December 6 . Season 2 focuses on Scott ’s new initiative to turn the North Pole into a crime syndicate business and educate his son , Cal , to replace him as Santa Claus . Meanwhile , Betty is forced to take time off due to the Kribble Krabble Clause , leaving Noel in tutelage as Head Elf .
Melanie Jones dish as the show ’s production designer and is responsible for recreating the world that was establish in the original 1994 film . Jones has antecedently worked on task such asInsidious : The Last Key , Painkiller , andThe Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window . Tim Allen lead the cast ofThe Santa Clausesseason 2 as Scott Calvin with Elizabeth Mitchell , Elizabeth Allen - Dick , Devin Bright , Austin Kane , Matilda Lawler , Gabriel “ Fluffy ” Iglesias , and Eric Stonestreet also star .
The Santa Clauses season 2 is presently airing on Disney+ and continues Scott Calvin ’s story while introduce some new character . When will it cease ?
Screen Rantexclusively interviewed Melanie Jones about speciate the Christmas decorations in the North Pole from those in the real world and finding a way to modernize the serial while still preserving the aesthetic ofthe original film .
Melanie Jones Talks The Santa Clauses Season 2
Screen Rant : Were you a fan of the originalThe Santa Clausefilms ?
Melanie Jones : I am . I have people on my gang that were young than me that actually grew up with it . I was an grownup when it add up out , and I still enjoy it . I thought it was really fun . It was a great opportunity for me to go back and take care at all three films , which I did before doing the first time of year of this TV version . I really re - enjoyed it in a means . That ’s not a proper term , but it was fun to go back and see it as an even older grownup , and it carry up . It ’s great stuff .
The Christmas yr - round theme apparently differentiate this from other show , so was there anything about that that excited you from a creative standpoint ?
Melanie Jones : candidly , yes and no . In time of year 2 , we have the Santopolis Museum , which is a Santa Claus museum . There were quite a lot of Santa Claus statues and tchotchkes from all sort of decades , and it does get a little overpowering . I have to say that Christmas in the North Pole is a different kind of Christmas than Christmas in the earth . It ’s not as mercenary in a sure sense . It ’s really about the conjuration of it . That , I can live in 24/7 , easily . It ’s a slap-up place to be . Creating the world of the North Pole is so much fun .
That touches on another interrogation I had for you . In season 1 , there ’s a lot of back and onward between the North Pole and the real world . Other than the tangible human beings being less decorative , how do you take different stylistic glide path to how Christmas is limn in each ?
Melanie Jones : Color palette , chiefly . The Christmas clobber that you would see in the real world is contemporary . A stack of the Christmas decorations in the North Pole are vintage or draw a bead on to be vintage , because we require to tell apart the story of the fact that the North Pole is quite old . We wanted to show Christmas through the decades , not only in that museum — the museum is a dissimilar matter . That ’s in the real world , but it ’s somebody who get laid Santa Claus and has curated that . In the North Pole , it ’s just there because the gremlin built the structure in the North Pole , and they ’ve populate those building with the thing that they enjoy , and they love Christmas . They inhabit for Christmas . I opine it feel just a little number more vintage and a piddling sr. . Christmas in Illinois that we see is a contemporary Christmas . It ’s what people would go get .
When you ’re working on the esthetic for the North Pole , is there ever a point when you say , “ I do n’t want the Christmas decorations to clash or be overkill , ” or do you palpate that ’s the goal of this world ?
Melanie Jones : It depends on what ’s happening in the outer space . The workshop is a bit overkill because they ’re making toys and building things . I lighten that setup . I stayed true to the structure of that from the three moving-picture show . I thought it was really well done in those movies , but I brought the color up and made it a little lighter for television . It depend on where you are . We have , for instance , the snowglobe depositary , which was inside an ice cave . The chalk caves are go bad to come back in time of year 2 because it ’s part of the backstory of how the North Pole came together .
There ’s nothing Christmas in there at all besides snowglobes . It really matter what story you ’re trying to tell and how the pixie are making function of the quad . There ’s the control gist where they ’re there with the footling gadgets and the bubbles and they ’re watch Santa ’s progress on Christmas night . That ’s very steampunk . I also based the design of that space on a picture that I saw from the Chrysler Building in New York — the way the top floor wait in the 1930s . I saw that picture and was inspired by it , so we ’re pull from all sort of source — not just Christmas .
Do you sop up any inspiration from any other classic or underrated Christmas movies ?
Melanie Jones : I do n’t know if they ’re underrated . I sure as shooting love A Christmas Story . I think it might be one of the best Christmas motion-picture show because it ’s so imbued with eccentric and this family and their quirkiness . It ’s a Wonderful Life , also not underrated , but certainly . I looked at every Christmas thing that I could possibly find , in terms of research , to contrast and compare . A lot of the artwork that you would see in our North Pole pasture from Victorian through Art Deco . Nouveau and that expressive style was in the earlier films , so we kept that style . A Christmas Story just has this kind of fondness and earthiness .
Although ours is a heightened reality , in a sense , the whole idea of the North Pole was that the elves built it , and elves like treats . Everything has a nutrient aspect to it . It ’s fudge , it ’s peppermint gum , it ’s glass cream , it ’s pound bar . The prison was inglorious liquorice . I did a poll of everybody working on the show . I was like , " What are the two Christmas candies or cakes that you hate the most ? " pitch-black licorice came up and fruitcake . So the walls of that jail cellular telephone are fruitcake . There ’s a subtext of food to all of it , because I think the elf motivation for everything is treats .
The movies have been around since the 90s , but there were a lot of technical upgrade in the first season . Can you give some insight into the process of preserving the North Pole that was created in the original picture show , while also modernizing it ?
Melanie Jones : I would say most of that modernization comes from working on the book stage at Disney . In full term of the technology at the North Pole , it ’s in the steampunk range . It ’s kind of Victorian . In the sets that I designed , I installed a pneumatic mail organization . Particularly in time of year 1 , you had everything now essay to take control condition of the North Pole , and it ’s very data processor , internet , yadda , yadda . I did n’t desire that . Santa has that magnifying deoxyephedrine that has multiple different crystalline lens on it , and we really just made one that looked like the original . I wanted to stick with the foot that was build up in those films for a match of reasons .
One , because I respect the pick that those designers made . They made really great choices . Their stuff was mostly Art Nouveau . I broke out and made it broad because we wanted to show passage of fourth dimension in a direction . The elves had been there for century of long time , and you ’ll see that in this upcoming time of year . There ’s some classic computer architecture and Gothic clobber . It ’s very old . I really respected the work that they did . At the get-go of the show , Tim Allen stressed how significant make for this quality has been to him . He said it ’s the thing that the great unwashed comment on more than any other work that he ’s done . Random people on the street go , " I love you in The Santa Clause . "
In terms of actually designing it , I want to keep it , in particular in time of year 1 , the technology of the North Pole to learn very far from the current Clarence Day . We really involve it in season 1 — less so in time of year 2 because it ’s not as much about that . The bulk leg really helped us create the shop . They had the peachy opportunity of work up that whole shop . That ’s a monolithic set . In world , in 3D , we do not have the time to do that in a serial of this form . We designed it , and we drew it , and ILM painted it . 80 % of what you see on photographic camera is not set . It ’s just the poppycock that the actors are moving around on that are . That was really interesting . It was so much playfulness to do that .
Going into season 2 , how did you want to judder things up visually to reflect a new plot line ?
Melanie Jones : We shook up things like the Easter Bunny . I got to do his sign of the zodiac and it was so much fun . You get to see where Betty and Noel live . The elves ' house are a whole new reality . That does not look like Christmas . Their homes reflect where they come from , primitively , 100 of year ago . They ’ve styled their homes to feel forest - like . It ’s a different color palette and a unlike aesthetic for certain . We also see the letter of the alphabet department . The snowglobe depository from last twelvemonth , where the kids went to look at how material families live , the letters department is the nuts and bolts of the pneumatic mail system of rules . It ’s also witching , because that ’s where the letters that you pen to Santa show up .
It ’s inside an meth cave . It ’s all of these pipes and cogs , but the ring armor is moving around as if by magic . It ’s not only Santa Claus mail that people send to him . It ’s also the business interdepartmental communication that take place at the North Pole . They ’re not picking up a cell phone or texting each other . The writers can change their minds down the route , but I personally care to keep the engineering science separate . I think that ’s part of the mystery and the magic of this position . It is run by magic . The North Pole is not really a friendly surround to live in . There has to be something besides blood and elbow grease to keep it go .
You ’ve work on a broad range of projects . Is there a genre or a specific type of world you enjoy bringing to sprightliness , or is it all about the news report ?
Melanie Jones : too soon on in my vocation , when I get my broker , I told him that I did n’t desire to be type as a room decorator . That encounter to production designers . You do a film , and then people go , " Oh , that person does this kind of look . " If you hop genres , you get an experience of work up thing you ’ve never build before . I ’m credibly not going to do the North Pole in a repulsion movie , but I ’m probably not get going to do some kind of torture dungeon basement in a kid ’s family - friendly thing . To me , it ’s about make the experience of reading a handwriting and see something in it that I have n’t design before and tackle it . You also get the chance to play with dissimilar color palette and really stretch mode .
I was a theater kid . It ’s not my sight . The script tells me what needs to happen most of the time . Then you get a director or somebody else total in and saying , " Hey , let ’s try this , " or " Let ’s do that . " I see it . As I ’m reading it , I see it . It ’s just there in front of me . You do n’t desire to be stand by in a horror moving picture esthetical your whole life or something else . I require to have the opportunity to stretch out . We made a point of looking at outside material . fortuitously , for me , there were people who were willing to give me the luck to do it . This , specifically , has been , maybe , my best-loved project . The North Pole is an unbelievable thing to create . There ’s so much there that you could do with it , and there ’s so much exemption .
About The Santa Clauses Season 2
In the 2d time of year , the Calvin family is back in the North Pole as Scott Calvin continue his role as Santa Claus after retirement plans were frustrate when fail to find a worthy successor in season one . Now that Scott and his family have successfully saved Christmas , Scott ferment his focus towards training his son Calvin to eventually take over the “ family line business ” as Santa Claus .
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The Santa Clausesseason 2 is available to stream only on Disney+ .
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