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Talbert had been developing “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” as a stage musical for several years, but wasn’t getting anyone to back the project.He shelved it until one day when he was watching “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” with his young son.
“He wasn’t into it,” Talbert tells Variety.
“I realized it was my nostalgia but he needed something that felt a little bit more contemporary…So it was time to do it, but make it this time with characters and images that represented how the world looks, including him.”Written and directed by Talbert, “Jingle Jangle” (available on Netflix) is a musical movie with a Black family at the center of the story.
Taking place during the Victorian era, Forest Whitaker stars as Jeronicus Jangle, the world’s greatest inventor whose life falls apart when a villainous toy (Ricky Martin) convinces his apprentice (Keegan-Michael Key
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