Call it a holiday miracle: The first look atZoey’s Extraordinary Christmasis finally here!
“It’s all I want, moreZoey’s!
I can’t wait for you to see it,” creator Austin Winsberg tells EW exclusively.
Skylar Astin and Jane Levy on ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’.Lionsgate TV
Below, Winsberg reveal everything you better know aboutZoey’s Extraordinary Christmas.
When does this heart song take place in the movie?
And mic-drop, it’s also one-shot.
There’s no cuts.
It was amazing shooting it, too.
We have hundreds of dancers in this number.
Are all the heart songs going to be Christmas/holiday-themed?
It’d be a stretch fitting only holiday-themed songs into the story as heart songs.
Yeah, and I actually had broken a version early on that only used holiday songs.
There was a way, but it did feel a little bit limiting.
Can you reveal any other songs or artists we’ll hear in the movie?
One I will tell you isTaylor Swiftis coming back again.
I wanted to go big for the movie or go home!
Why did you want to make the movie centered around the holidays?
What are we going to see from Zoey throughout the movie?
And now the family’s left adrift trying to figure out how to do it without dad around.
Should we celebrate it at all?
Should we ignore it?
Do we honor him?
Do we not honor him?
What are the ways that we as a family can function over the holidays?
That was my next question!
It is abigpart of the movie.
Did I say that Zoey still has the powers?
Well, we see her hearing Mo’s heart song in that first scene…
Ah, yes.
And we’re still going to get all that rom-com stuff in the movie?
How has Max getting the powers impacted the way you’re able to do heart songs in the movie?
It opens up our world and our possibilities of storytelling.
Jane is so good and funny at doing that kind of stuff.
She has a few killer numbers in the movie.
She has one number where I watch it with my jaw on the floor every time I see it.
I have no idea how she did it.
‘Tis the season!Love Actually, I’m a big fan of that holiday movie.
We’re going to continue with Mo and Perry’s story and seeing how that relationship progresses.
