Danica McKellar is gearing as much as proceed celebrating The Marvel Years’ thirty fifth anniversary by reuniting with a few of her former co-stars on the upcoming ‘90s Con, however she’s clearly specializing in extra than simply her previous. To that finish, the cable film queen has lined up her subsequent huge vacation film for her present residence at Nice American Household, and she or he’ll be extra concerned behind the scenes than ever.
One of many first entries to be revealed for GAF’s upcoming Nice American Christmas 2023 line of options, Danica McKellar’s latest vacation venture will likely be Royal Christmas Ball. For the movie, the DC Tremendous Hero Ladies vet will star as Chelsea Shaw, a dance teacher residing in Chicago who longs for a familial connection once more a few years after the deaths of her adoptive dad and mom. As a strategy to fulfill that lacking a part of her life, Chelsea makes use of her Christmas break and makes a visit throughout the globe to the small European nation of Havenshire, in line with Deadline. As you may need imagined, this bustling burg is the place her lineage traces again to.
Which is definitely a great factor for the handsome-though-reluctant prince that’s a part of the native royal household. (Christmas motion pictures love a royal household storyline like no person’s enterprise.) So as to study extra details about her household, Chelsea figures out the fam is her finest guess, so she takes a gig educating the aforementioned prince find out how to dance a really particular Waltz going into the annual Royal Christmas Ball.
You gotta love how the synopsis for this story squarely factors out that Chelsea goes to search out love in Havenshire, on high of studying solutions to lots of her long-held questions. And also you guess your fanciest crown she’s going to make new household connections. Whether or not or not these are every part she hoped, that’ll get discovered when the film airs on Nice American Household later this yr.
Making Royal Christmas Ball a novel GAF venture for Danica McKellar is that it’s her first for the community the place she’s serving as not solely an government producer, but in addition a co-writer. She co-penned the story with Marcy Holland, who has carved out a candy nook for herself within the TV film world, having written for Image Excellent Mysteries, Matchmaker Mysteries, the Time for You to Come House for Christmas collection, and plenty of extra. (Psycho Escort? She co-wrote that one, too.)
Whereas McKellar has been an EP on fairly a couple of of her small display screen options lately, this marks her first writing credit score in that area because the second Inspector Mother film in 2007. She additionally helped carry the tutorial internet collection Math Bites to life in 2014, however that’s on a completely totally different aircraft.
The actress shared the information by way of Instagram Tales, with the caption:
So excited for the [Great American Family] 2023 Christmas film we’re making ready for you guys…!
Outdoors of the TV film world, McKellar saved busy in 2022 as one of many judges on Fox’s Domino Masters, in addition to voicing Miss Martian within the now-canceled Younger Justice collection on HBO Max. She additionally made a second visitor look on Topher Grace’s ABC sitcom House Economics. To not point out her character Winnie Cooper factoring right into a universe-connecting reveal on ABC’s The Marvel Years. You wouldn’t suppose she’d left the performing world for years given how busy she presently is, however audiences are all the higher for her return.
Now there’s simply that entire “getting by the massive chunk of 2023 between now and Christmas film season” to take care of. Maybe there is a dance teacher ready to fall in love with me someplace within the meantime.