Deadline is reporting that Emmy nominee Walton Goggins (Justified, Vice Principals, The Unicorn) will star in a lead role alongside Mel Gibson in Rough House Pictures’ dark action Santa Claus comedy Fatman.
Fatman centers on a neglected and precocious 12-year-old who hires an unorthodox hitman to kill Santa Claus (Gibson) after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
Rough House Pictures is producing along with Todd Courtney of Mammoth Entertainment with Mammoth now set to finance.
Rough House’s Brandon James, Fortitude’s Nadine de Barros, Skywolf’s Lisa Wolofsky, Michelle Lang, and Robert Menzies are also producing.