Hunter King Scores a Holiday Touchdown With Hallmark & the Chiefs
We were so close to a touchdown, and we didn’t even know it! Soaps.com interviewed Hunter King just last Thursday for her latest Hallmark Channel rom-com, Two Scoops of Italy, and we were curious if she had a Christmas film on the horizon. She sure did, but she couldn’t tell us much at the time. It’s a Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce-inspired romance with King and Tyler Hynes in Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story.
The movie teams up the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs with Hallmark in a Super Bowl-sized production filmed at the GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. King will play Alana Higman, a football superfan who tries to win the team’s “Fan of the Year” contest with her sports-crazed family. Hynes enters the picture as Derrick, the team’s Director of Fan Engagement, who has to spend quality time with Alana and her family, especially when her father’s vintage Chiefs hat goes missing. Hallmark is promising “a little Christmas magic” with “a Hail Mary” in the end.
King teased the movie as best she could during our Two Scoops of Italy interview. She wasn’t allowed to say much ahead of the official June 25 announcement, but she was beyond excited! “[I’m] trying to think of how I can tease this. I haven’t filmed it yet, but I will be filming a very, very fun Christmas movie that will be coming out, I would assume this year. I cannot wait. It’s like a dream, a dream job,” she gushed. “And it’s just going to be such a fun one for everyone to watch. And I cannot wait. No royalty in this one [like A Royal Corgi Christmas], but just a total dream in many other ways. So, I cannot wait. It’s going to be so great.” Phew! You can feel King’s excitement in every word.
The movie begins filming next month, and we have a feeling it’s going to have some serious Swift-Kelce vibes (and maybe a cameo??) that have enraptured everyone in the NFL and on the Eras Tour. Darren Abbott, Chief Brand Officer at Hallmark, revealed in a press release that this project is bringing together the best of the network and the NFL. “With Hallmark and the Kansas City Chiefs both homegrown, rooted in values, tradition, and community, there is a special alchemy between these two iconic organizations,” he said in the statement. “By blending the warmth of Hallmark storytelling with the excitement of professional football, we are thrilled to give audiences a front-row seat to this community’s spirit, rich traditions, and passionate fans that define Kansas City, all wrapped up in the comforting and uplifting Hallmark way.”
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