Trace Adkins recently finished filming in Los Angeles on a movie that puts a new spin on a Christmas classic, but don't look for the picture during the holidays. Producers hope to get it out much sooner - perhaps in August.
The movie is American Carol, written and directed by David Zucker, responsible for the spoofs Airplane! and The Naked Gun. American Carol is a satire of the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol, but it uses a different holiday to tell its story.
"American Carol, instead of bein' set around Christmas, is set around the Fourth of July," Trace says. "The Scrooge character just doesn't think that the Fourth of July should even be recognized anymore, so the spirits come and beat the hell out of him and show him why he should be a little more patriotic and this and that. But it's a comedy, and I had a blast doin' it."
Trace plays one of the ghosts in the movie, which — according to IMDB.com — also employs several characters out of history, including Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy and Adolf Hitler. Among the actors joining Trace in the picture are Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Jon Voight and Leslie Nielsen.
In the meantime, Trace's role in Trailer Park Of Terror is on the docket for discussion at the Nashville Film Festival tonight. The movie is showing in Green Hills, and Trace is expected to field questions from the audience afterward.