A few weeks in the past, it was introduced that Paramount Footage has put a brand new adaptation of A Christmas Carol on the quick monitor, aiming for a theatrical launch on November 13, 2026. Ti West, who lately directed the X, Pearl, and MaXXXine trilogy, might be directing Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol for Paramount, with Johnny Depp set to play Ebenezer Scrooge – and Deadline has damaged the information that Ian McKellen of the X-Males and Lord of the Rings franchises and Tramell Tillman of Severance have joined Depp within the forged!
Additionally within the forged is Andrea Riseborough (Mandy), who, like Depp, was already concerned earlier than the undertaking was introduced.
West might be directing the movie from a screenplay by Nathaniel Halpern. Deadline reminds us, the basic Charles Dickens story has seen its justifiable share of retellings through the years with its story of an aged miser visited by the ghost of his former enterprise associate and the spirits of Christmas Previous, Christmas Current and Christmas But to Come. For his first main studio film, West might be telling a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, following one man’s supernatural journey to face his previous, current and future and combat for a second probability. Depp might be taking part in Ebenezer Scrooge. We don’t know who McKellen or Riseborough might be taking part in, however Deadline hears that Tillman’s function is likely to be the Ghost of Christmas Current.
Emma Watts is producing the movie, with Stephen Deuters, Jason Forman, Adam Bohling, and David Reid serving as government producers.
It’s type of stunning to see Paramount transferring full steam forward on Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, as a result of it was introduced 4 months in the past that Nosferatu director Robert Eggers might be writing and directing a brand new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for Warner Bros., with Willem Dafoe on board to play Ebenezer Scrooge. However the truth that Eggers is busy along with his werewolf film Werwulf, which simply began filming, allowed Paramount to leap-frog forward of that undertaking.
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