Following a Christmas Eve blunder, Santa’s elves orchestrate a high-tech takeover of the North Pole, but when corporate greed and failed technology threaten to ruin Christmas, the elves must unite to retake the holiday, restore Santa’s mojo and prove Christmas Magic is still alive.

SYNOPSIS:

In a world where Santa Claus is real and everyone knows it, the newest

member of Santa’s Christmas Eve elf sleigh team, Seren (late 20s), looks

to prove herself and live up to her father’s reputation. Other flight

team members are the navigator Ash (50s), flight engineer Harper (30s),

and of course Santa himself. Seren is nervous for her first flight but

Santa calms her promising to always have her back.

Meanwhile in Dover, Delaware, Natalie (7) prepares for Santa’s annual

Christmas Eve arrival with dad Michael (40) and grandpa Joe (70).

Finishing their Christmas Eve rounds, Seren discovers the unthinkable–a

missed present– a purple-wrapped box intended for Natalie. They attempt a

daring pre-dawn race eastward that includes a loop around the St. Louis

Arch arriving in Delaware seemingly just in time. But Santa’s luck runs

out when he’s spotted by Natalie in her home and fails to deliver the

gift.

Ashamed, Santa hides away Natalie’s forgotten gift. Seren blames

herself. She and Ash concoct a scheme to bring in tech giant MaxBeta to

take over North Pole operations.

MaxBeta is headed by Lauren Maxwell (30s) who stands to inherit the

company from her father Graham (70s). Along with her put-upon underling

Wendy (30s), Lauren rallies her staff for a North Pole presentation

promising an app that provides the “Magic of Christmas in your hand.”

Feeling lower than ever, Santa accepts Lauren’s proposal. Seren and Ash

are confident but Harper remains dubious of MaxBeta, receding to his

reindeer stables with plans to build a new, modernized sleigh.

Upon their takeover, MaxBeta levels a forest and rapidly constructs

manufacturing facilities, leaving the elves’ old workshop abandoned. Not

wanting interference from Santa, Lauren enlists Ash to keep him busy.

After hilarious failures with curling and snowboarding, Ash finds Santa

excels at hockey.

MaxBeta takes strict control over the holiday, including copyrighting

popular Christmas terms and replacing children’s Santa visits with a

bizarre 3D hologram. The public condemns inflated costs for items on the

MaxBeta app, including “Adding a 13th Day of Christmas” and “Naughty

List Expungements.” Though angry letters pour in from kids and parents

voicing their dissatisfaction, Lauren manages to keep Santa in the dark

and all scrutiny at bay. But when Seren spots MaxBeta’s plans for a new

blue Santa Suit, she fears Christmas Magic may be gone forever.

With the next Christmas Eve upon them, Lauren looks to impress with her

tech-heavy approach. But Seren and Harper find proof of MaxBeta’s

devious doings in a disheartening letter from Natalie. When Lauren

intercepts the letter by feeding it to a hungry reindeer, Seren devises a

plan to expose MaxBeta’s much-hated payment app. She sneaks into

Lauren’s office and with some unexpected assistance from Wendy, Seren

makes off with a tablet to show Santa.

With real data ready to show Santa, Seren finds the tablet has broken

during her hasty escape. Reminding him of their convenient, Santa makes

good on his year ago promise to always have Seren’s back and he

magically restores the tablet. He now sees the app, payments and

MaxBeta’s delivery drones going haywire spitting gifts into the sky.

Santa resolves to save Christmas but his team must rejoin and work

together. With the help of Harper’s new tricked-out sleigh, the team

flies off where Santa uses a hockey stick to swat the errant drones from

the sky.

Their combined efforts saves Christmas for the world. Knowing Santa

still has unresolved business, with just minutes remaining before

sunrise, Seren produces Natalie’s forgotten gift from one year ago. With

his confidence restored and with the aid of Harper’s new engine, Santa

turns the sleigh around. Racing back to Delaware with the same loop

around the St. Louis Arch, Santa successfully delivers Natalie’s gift

restoring his mojo and Natalie’s faith.

Returning to the North Pole, Lauren tries to cover but is confronted by

Graham who’s heard the real story from Mrs. Claus. When Seren reveals

the payment app wasn’t just shut down, it returned everyone’s money,

Lauren panics, running off into the snow.

Celebrating at the annual North Pole Christmas party, friendships are

mended, relationships are blossoming and Santa and Mrs. Claus perform a

perfect a hip-wiggling rumba.

Christmas 2.0 can be a live action or animated feature.