EXCLUSIVE: Following her work with Netflix on its common household movies Household Depart and Sure Day, in addition to The Adam Challenge, the sci-fi pic with Ryan Reynolds marking considered one of its largest to this point when it comes to viewership, Jennifer Garner is again in enterprise with the streamer after signing on to star in its vacation comedy, Mrs. Claus, sources inform Deadline.
Netflix had no remark. Particulars as to the plot of the movie are below wraps. Leah McKendrick (Scrambled) is writing the script, with Reese Witherspoon set to provide for Hi there Sunshine, which has been at work with Garner of late on the acclaimed Apple TV+ thriller sequence The Final Factor He Informed Me.
Most just lately, Garner signed on to star reverse Paul Walter Hauser in Max Winkler’s true-crime pic Fruitcake, as we had been first to report. Pic tells the true story of Sandy and Kay Jenkins, a seemingly upstanding middle-class couple who went on to embezzle thousands and thousands from common Texas-based enterprise Collin Road Bakery. Garner exec produces and stars in Apple’s The Final Factor He Informed Me, which just lately secured a second season order, and likewise just lately starred in Starz’s reboot of beloved comedy Get together Down. She’ll subsequent be seen reprising her position of Elektra in Marvel Studios’s extremely anticipated characteristic Deadpool & Wolverine, out July 26.
McKendrick is finest identified for writing, directing and starring within the egg-freezing dramedy Scrambled, which world premiered finally 12 months’s SXSW Movie Pageant and was launched by Lionsgate and Roadside Sights earlier this 12 months. Most just lately, she was tapped to script an I Know What You Did Final Summer time sequel for Sony, on which we had been first to report.
Along with the second season of The Final Factor He Informed Me, Hi there Sunshine’s upcoming slate consists of Amazon MGM Studios’ Nicholas Stoller comedy You’re Cordially Invited, starring Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, amongst different tasks.
Garner is repped by CAA, Linden Leisure, and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern; McKendrick by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone Leisure, and VanderKloot Legislation; and Witherspoon by CAA, LBI Leisure, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
