March 3 (UPI) —<\/span> Kal Penn has joined the cast of The Santa Clause<\/i> series at Disney+.<\/p>\n The 44-year-old actor will star in the upcoming Santa Clause<\/i> sequel series, Deadline reported Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n The new show is based on the 1994 movie The Santa Clause<\/i> and its sequels The Santa Clause 2<\/i> (2002) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause<\/i> (2006).<\/p>\n Penn joins original stars Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell, who will reprise their roles as Scott Calvin and Carol Calvin, aka Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. Variety confirmed Penn’s casting.<\/p>\n In the Santa Clause <\/i>series, Scott (Allen) is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing he can’t be Santa forever. He begins looking for a replacement.<\/p>\n Penn will play Simon Choski, a single father and an ambitious game inventor and product developer.<\/p>\n “Simon can talk the tech-mogul talk but can’t walk the walk and his dreams of being the next Bezos falls drastically short. But all that changes after a visit to the North Pole,” an official description reads.<\/p>\n Jack Burditt, who previously worked with Allen on his show Last Man Standing<\/i>, will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the Santa Clause<\/i> series. Jason Winer will direct and executive produce with Allen, Kevin Hench, Richard Baker and Rick Messina.\n<\/p>\n Penn is known for starring in the Harold & Kumar<\/i> films. He also played Dr. Lawrence Kutner on House<\/i> and Seth Wright on Designated Survivor<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\/5 Kal Penn will star with Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell in the Disney+ series “The Santa Clause.” File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo March 3 (UPI) — Kal Penn has joined the cast of The Santa Clause series at Disney+. The 44-year-old actor will star in the upcoming Santa Clause sequel series, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Kal Penn will star with Tim Allen and Elizabeth Mitchell in the Disney+ series “The Santa Clause.” File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n