Anna Kendrick playing a female Santa Claus? Disney is ho-ho-hopeful.
LOS ANGELES -- Christmas has come early this year: Anna Kendrick is in talks to play a female Santa Claus in the Disney project Nicole, Mashable has confirmed.
Plot details are scant at this point, and the project is still coming together -- so the dream of seeing the Pitch Perfect star in trimmed red fur may still belong with the sugarplums. But a director is set in Marc Lawrence (Miss Congeniality 2), who also wrote the script.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news Wednesday, it's a "holiday family adventure that centers on the coming of a female Santa." A source with knowledge of the project told Mashable that talks are indeed underway, though no dates for release or production start have been set.
THR also notes that Nicole is not a musical, but that Kendrick "may end up indulging her musical side."
Pour some milk into some Cups, set 'em by the chimney and hope for the best, we suppose.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
