Red One

Storyline

Red One is an ambitious, high-octane holiday action-adventure and fantasy comedy directed by Jake Kasdan, reimagining timeless Christmas mythology through the lens of a gritty, modern global covert operations thriller. The high-stakes crisis erupts at the North Pole when a clandestine strike team of rogue supernatural mercenaries breaches the heavily guarded fortress complex of the North Pole and kidnaps Santa Claus—codenamed 'Red One'—just days before Christmas Eve. With the global holiday on the verge of catastrophic collapse, Callum Drift, the stern, intensely disciplined Commander of the E.L.F. (Enforcement, Logistics, and Fortification) unit, takes charge of the critical rescue mission. Realizing that the sophisticated abduction could only have been engineered with illicit, high-level tracking data, the North Pole covert agency tracks down the compromised leak to Jack O'Malley, an infamous, morally cynical black-market bounty hunter and tech tracker who sold the coordinates without knowing his employer's apocalyptic intentions. Dragged kicking and screaming into the North Pole's secret geopolitical sphere, Jack is forced into a volatile, mismatched partnership with Callum. Their perilous transcontinental pursuit takes them from luxurious Caribbean beaches to the freezing, myth-haunted forests of the Arctic, colliding with monstrous mythological adversaries like the terrifying Krampus and the ruthless winter witch Grýla. Packed with cutting-edge visual effects, inventive holiday gadgets, exhilarating hand-to-hand combat choreography, and infectious buddy-cop chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, Red One delivers a fresh, action-packed celebration of personal redemption, childhood wonder, and the enduring power of belief.