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Hiram Garcia is just as busy as Johnson, being the President of Production for the actor’s Seven Bucks Productions company behind many of his projects, but this time around, the idea for the story also came from Garcia. Speaking in a lengthy interview with Collider about many upcoming movies on Johnson’s books, Garcia spoke a little about where Red One sits in the production schedule and what can be expected of the project when it arrives. Garcia said:
“What I can tell you is that it is a very big Christmas movie. We’ve always wanted to do a Christmas movie, but we didn’t want to do the typical Christmas movies that tend to go a little bit broader, I think, in tone. We had been looking for something that matched, the tone and tenor of DJ and what DJ brings to the table, so was able to come up with a really fun Christmas idea, but in tone it’s much more of a Hobbs & Shaw, more of Guardians of the Galaxy in tone and vibe because you’re dealing with crazy mythological elements, turning a lot of tropes we know about the holidays on their head, but also really big action and globe-trotting”
