Apple’s first TV+ holiday special will star Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds – Engadget

If Apple TV+ is going to safe Netflix and streaming rivals head-on, it be going to want a key weapon in its arsenal: star-encumbered holiday specials. And certain ample, its first special appears to be like to be on the manner. Hollywood Reporter sources enlighten Apple is finalizing a deal to compose a musical reinterpretation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. This would well well no longer be a cinematic masterpiece when it be directed by the group in the abet of the Daddy’s Dwelling movies (moreover starring Will Ferrell). On the other hand, Apple became once reportedly very enthusiastic — tipsters mentioned it “moved aggressively” on the manufacturing.