A week before Christmas terrorists invade the North Pole and take Santa hostage, and the only cop that can save him hates Christmas more than Ebenezer Scrooge.

my question to consider is what relevance does this guy hating christmas more, have to do with resolving the story?

Ie why should we care if he doesn't like christmas. how does it serve the big concept of the story?

Would him hating christmas mean that he doesn't do his job properly just cause its santa?

Think Lethal weapon and Murtaugh being too old for this shit.

Love it! It would make a good adult oriented CGI animated film...and I don't mean porno.

That's what I figured -- just wanted to make sure. To most that probably seemed obvious (especially given the title) -- but I just wanted to be sure. Sounds awesome.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Just to clarify: what I'm going for with this is a tongue-in-cheek, r-rated, over the top action-comedy. Not in any way a serious movie.

Hear hear... But isn't also the key function of a longline to get someone with either the power and or money to read and hopefully produce said film? If I was lucky enough to be that person, you know, with money and or power the first thing I see when I read this longline is the poster. My first question (which was my first... And really, only question...) is what is the genre and who is the target audience. I think this is a fair enough question given the concept... As violent movies involving Santa are rare (maybe for a reason...)...

It may not be a bullet-proof logline. But it does what a logline is supposed to do: convey the core concept and grab attention.

The mere fact that it has spawned so many ideas and variations is a testament to the viability of the core concept. Ergo, I think it's a winner.