7 time Emmy Award Winning Actor Ed Asner plays Santa Claus and was inducted into the Santa Hall of Fame for his reprisal of Santa.
Director, Bryan Michael Stoller, originally from Canada, is shooting the opening scenes in Canada set in the Yukon Territories, and also to simulate the North Pole where Santa's Workshop is located.
This is the last live-action movie Ed Asner got to portray "Santa Clause".