Two “Saturday Night Live” grads are teaming up for a holiday-themed comedy. Deadline reports that Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer will act in, write, and executive produce “A Clüsterfünke Christmas.” Described as “a celebratory parody of the corny and ubiquitous traditional TV movie holiday romance genre,” the MTV Entertainment Studios film will star “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s” Vella Lovell.
“A Clüsterfünke Christmas” tells the story of Holly (Lovell), a “go-getter real estate executive from New York City who heads on assignment to a small town to buy up the quaint Clüsterfünke Inn and transform it into a mega-resort. First order of business? She must convince the inn’s spinster owners (Gasteyer and Dratch) to make the sale. But before she can, she meets their nephew Frank (Cheyenne Jackson), a hot hunk of smoldering woodsman. Will she go back to her fast-paced city life, stripping the town of its old-school charms? Or will she fall in love with Frank and find the spirit of Christmas? What will she do? What. Will. She. Do.”
The pic “will premiere on one of the ViacomCBS platforms to be announced later,” the source details.
Dratch and Gasteyer commented, “It feels like a Christmas miracle to work together to create the ultimate holiday TV movie homage.” They described “A Clüsterfünke Christmas” as a “punchy seasonal cocktail.”
A cast member on “SNL” from 1999 to 2006, Dratch’s recent credits include “Plan B” and a recurring role on “Mr. Mayor.”
After Gasteyer’s run on “SNL” from 1996 to 2002 she went on to star in series such as “The Goldbergs” and “Lady Dynamite.” She recently had a supporting role in “Happiest Season.”
Lovell is a series regular on “Mr. Mayor.” She also recently appeared in Hulu’s Kat Dennings-starrer “Dollface.”