Apple TV announced today that Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie is writing original songs for the upcoming animated feature Little Santa. The film directed by Peter Baynton (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland) and is based on the popular children’s book of the same title by author and illustrator Jon Agee. The movie follows young Santa Claus on an Oz-like trek through the North Pole, meeting and inspiring the offbeat friends who will create Christmas and remind the world to believe.
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Guy Chambers & Amy Wadge to Compose Music for Peter Baynton’s ‘The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland’
Songwriter, record producer and composer Guy Chambers (best known for his work with Robbie Williams) and lyricist Amy Wadge (who won a Grammy Award for co-writing Thinking Out Loud with Ed Sheeran) have been hired to compose the original music and songs for the upcoming animated musical The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland. The film is directed by Peter Baynton (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse) and features the voices of Emilia Clarke, Gerard Butler and Simone Ashley. The movie is based on Carys Bexington’s bestselling book of the same title, which mashed up Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland and Clement Clarke Moore’s poem Twas the Night Before Christmas.