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Getting to collaborate with his friend Vince Vaughn as a co-producer helped seal the deal.
\"I got to work with Vince ... which was awesome and bring back the whole kid cast,\" he said. \"So, it's been a while that we've been working on it and we didn't feel comfortable saying yes till all the right pieces fell ... and then we said, 'OK, we have the confidence that this was the time to go now.'\"
Vaughn said he knew his friend was \"reluctant\" to go for a sequel because he sees that \"every Christmas the fandom for Pete, and the awareness, is so high\" but he felt there was something new brought to the table for the sequel.
\"Pete's always so smart with film and collaborating and coming up with ideas, so to see him really be the leader on this and to take it, and for the movie to turn out as exceptional as it has, the movie's just terrific,\" he said. \"I think there's something in waiting.\"
He added, \"It doesn't feel like it's just like, 'Hey, how do we trade on what worked?' It's its own new story that feels like a proper evolution. That's what's so exciting about it.\"
\"A Christmas Story Christmas\" debuts Nov. 17 on HBO Max.
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