Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorSaban Films has acquired U.S. rights to Fatman, the dark action comedy starring Mel Gibson as Santa Claus.
The deal reunites the company with writer-directors Eshom and Ian Nelms after Saban released the brothers’ noir Small Town Crime in 2017.
A 2020 release is in the works for Fatman.Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste star alongside Gibson in the film, in which a neglected and precocious 12-year-old hires an unorthodox hitman (Goggins) to kill Santa (Gibson) after getting a lump of coal in his stocking.A first-look photo of Gibson has also emerged (see above).
He plays a rowdy, unorthodox Santa who is fighting his business decline. Fortitude International’s Nadine de Barros, Mammoth.
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