EXCLUSIVE: Following her work with Netflix on its well-liked household movies Household Go away and Sure Day, in addition to The Adam Undertaking, the sci-fi pic with Ryan Reynolds marking one in all its greatest so far by way of 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 Hiya Sunshine, which has been at work with Garner of late on the acclaimed Apple TV+ thriller sequence The Final Factor He Instructed Me.
Most not too long ago, 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 hundreds of thousands from well-liked Texas-based enterprise Collin Road Bakery. Garner exec produces and stars in Apple’s The Final Factor He Instructed Me, which not too long ago secured a second season order, and likewise not too long ago starred in Starz’s reboot of beloved comedy Occasion Down. She’ll subsequent be seen reprising her position of Elektra in Marvel Studios’s extremely anticipated function Deadpool & Wolverine, out July 26.
McKendrick is finest recognized for writing, directing and starring within the egg-freezing dramedy Scrambled, which world premiered finally yr’s SXSW Movie Pageant and was launched by Lionsgate and Roadside Sights earlier this yr. Most not too long ago, she was tapped to script an I Know What You Did Final Summer season sequel for Sony, on which we had been first to report.
Along with the second season of The Final Factor He Instructed Me, Hiya Sunshine’s upcoming slate contains Amazon MGM Studios’ Nicholas Stoller comedy You’re Cordially Invited, starring Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, amongst different initiatives.
Garner is repped by CAA, Linden Leisure, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern; McKendrick by UTA, Kaplan/Perrone Leisure, and VanderKloot Regulation; and Witherspoon by CAA, LBI Leisure, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.