The Jonas Brothers have signed on to produce and star in a new holiday feature film for Disney+ that will roll out on the streamer in time for 2025’s festive season.
Jonas Brothers Christmas Movie (working title) follows the siblings as they travel from London to New York, navigating numerous hurdles in order to get home in time to celebrate Christmas. Target demo details have not been announced yet, but Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television unit—which has credits on live-action tween titles such as Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. and American Born Chinese—will produce the film.
Jessica Yu (13 Reasons Why) is directing; songwriter Justin Tranter will serve as executive music producer; and Isaac Aptaker (Love, Simon) and Elizabeth Berger (Turtles All the Way Down) are pulling double duty as writers and producers.
This project marks a homecoming of sorts for the Jonas Brothers, real-life siblings (and a pop rock trio) who began their career as teen stars featured in the Disney stable.
Disney-owned record label Hollywood Records released three Jonas Brothers albums in the mid-2000s, with the Mouse House leveraging the band’s popularity into the hit kids movie franchise Camp Rock and a 2009 concert film called Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (which earned US$30 million at the box office). The group also starred in multiple Disney Channel shows, including Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream (2008 to 2010) and Jonas (2009 to 2010).
Disney+ seems to be on a ’00s revival kick lately—it also has a Malcolm in the Middle miniseries and a reimagined Holes series pilot in the works.