Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey are attached to star in John Waters' "Fruitcake" for This Is That Prods. and Killer Films says The Hollywood Reporter.

The plot is officially under wraps but is said to center on the title character, a boy named after his favorite dessert.

He runs away from home during the Xmas holidays after he and his parents are caught shoplifting meat, then meets up with a runaway girl raised by two gay men and searching for her birth mother.

ThinkFilm is said to be in talks to come aboard and distribute the project which was once set up at New Line Cinema.