According to Deadline, Golden Globe winners Jennifer Garner (Family Switch) and Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) have signed on for the leading roles in the upcoming true-crime drama titled, Fruitcake.
Garner and Hauser are set to play a married couple, who embezzled money from a Texas bakery in order to support their luxurious lifestyle. The project will be based on Katy Vine’s Texas Monthly article Just Deserts about the real-life story of Sandy and Kay Jenkins.
What to expect from Fruitcake?
“The film will follow a seemingly upstanding middle-class couple who went on to embezzle millions from popular Texas-based business Collin Street Bakery,” reads the initial logline. “Hauser plays Sandy — an unassuming accountant who was funneling large sums of money into his accounts and credit card bills to support a lavish lifestyle, including expensive jewelry, private jet trips and a second home in New Mexico.”
Fruitcake will be directed by Max Winkler from a 2016 Black List screenplay written by Trey Selman. The film is executive produced by Brian O’Shea, Danny Gusman, Bob McNutt, Scott Brown and Megan Creydt, with Red Sanders and Selman producing.
