“We’re stoked to be bringing it to shoot this summer.”
Red Sanders
President
Red Productions
.…on producing “Fruitcake” starring Jennifer Garner and Paul Walter Hauser, based on a nearly $17M embezzlement from Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery, via the Dallas Morning News.
Red Sanders
From the early 2000s to 2013, something illegal got baked up at Corsicana-based Collin Street Bakery & Cafe—a relentless embezzlement of nearly $17 million by the bakery’s comptroller, Sandy Jenkins.
Specializing in fruitcakes, the bakery was puzzled by more than a decade of hard-to-explain losses. Meanwhile, Jenkins and his wife Kay were “taking more than 223 trips on their private jets to exclusive locations including Santa Fe, Aspen, and Napa,” according to a post by the bakery, and secretly spending lavishly, including a total tab of $1.2 million at Neiman Marcus NorthPark alone.
If that sounds like a good story, it is—as Texas Monthly readers found in 2016’s “Just Desserts” by Katy Vine. It’s also got the makings of a good movie—and after a circuitous route through the pandemic years, and changes from originally cast stars Will Farrell and Laura Dern, “Fruitcake” is now slated to be filmed by Red Sanders’ Fort Worth-based Red Productions. Jennifer Garner and Paul Walter Hauser will portray the criminal couple.
You can read more about the story’s path from story to production in DMN’s story here.
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