Crackle's stop-motion superhero series to release "War on Christmas Special" this December.
Keegan-Michael Key and Breckin Meyer, voice stars of Crackle's Supermansion, turned Sunday's panel for the streaming superhero series into a master class in improv. They kept the audience entertained as big announcements for the series were made to great response.
Matthew Senreich and Zeb Wells, co-creators of the series, broke the news that a Christmas special would drop before the show's second season. The special's premise revolves around Cooch (Heidi Garner) using the miracle of a Christmas wish to actually will Santa Claus into existence.
Gary Anthony Williams will be lending his voice talents for Santa and that alone should tell you that this will be a very different portrayal of St. Nick.
"Santa Claus is bent and twisted in this," Williams explains. "He's already a creepy dude, but the way he travels from home to home in this is fucked."
That's certainly something to get excited about. Senreich continued to pull back the layers on their rendition of Santa Claus, "Santa doesn't understand where he's from or how his powers work and that drives him a little crazy." Besides digging into Santa, the show's Christmas special will poke fun at visiting families, gifts and shopping, and the growing bifurcation of the "happy holidays" nature of Christmas (which rubs American Danger particularly the wrong way). Oh, and Jim Parsons will be voicing a doll, so there's that.
While the panel's focus was certainly "The War on Christmas" plenty of season two nuggets were also divulged, such as the show's characters getting pushed further on their journey, more of Titanium Rex's past, and of course everything culminating in an epic showdown.
Certain comic references such as a "Days of Future Past" riff and a Galactus tangent will be seen this year, as well as Yvette Nicole Brown becoming a series regular and Breckin Meyer voicing a new character that's a trophy husband of a new character in season two.
Senreich and Wells also touched on comic characters like Swamp Thing and Dr. Strange that they'd slowly like to work into the show somehow. Keegan-Michael Key even suggested digging into an invulnerable Wolverine-type character to the Supermansion. "Someone's who's invulnerable but doesn't want to be. Or emotionally invulnerable."
Senreich and Wells' other series, Robot Chicken, already has a rich history of producing specials and it currently seems like their approach on this won't be any different. Supermansion: The War on Christmas will be streaming for free on Crackle on December 8, with season two following in 2017.