(Left) ‘Nosferatu’ Director Robert Eggers. (Right) Michael Caine and the MUPPETS in ‘The MUPPET Christmas Carol’. Photo: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
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- Robert eggers have his eye on ‘a christmas carol.’
- He’s aiming to have willlem dafoe play iconic miser scrooge.
- The movie is in development at warner bros.
Writer/Director Robert eggers Delivered a very different sort of festive treatment last year with vampire tale ‘Nosferatu’. Oscar Nominations, Plus $ 181 Million Worldwide at the Box Office, Including $ 95 Million domestical.
And from the sound of a report by deadlineHe’s Looking to Stay in a Festive Mood, with a Future Plan to Go Where Hundreds of Filmmakers have gone before. No, NOT ‘Star Trek,’ but an adaptation of Charles dickens‘Classic story’ a christmas carol. ‘
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It’s early days for this one, which is in development at warner brothers (somewhat surprising give that much of eggers’ Prior output has been for universal arm focus features) What his plan is to make the story his own, but deadline mentions a less-tohan-shocking early casting choice.
While no official offers have gone out, it appears eggers is ready to work against with Willem DafoeWho have appeared in every one of the director’s movies Since ‘The lighthouse.’ If eggers has his way, dafoe will play scrooge, the central figure of ‘Christmas carol’ (more on that below).
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What’s the story of ‘a christmas carol’?
1992’s ‘The MUPPET Christmas Carol.’ Photo: walt disney pictures.
If you haven’T heard of ‘a christmas carol,’ We can only assume you’ve some ben buried benath a fallen festive tree.
Dickens’ Novella was first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and Illustrated by John Leech.
It’s the story of ebenezer scrooge, a man whose life has been to hee building an Elderly Miser with no time for Christmas Traditions or even much human empathy.
A Shrewd Businessman, He Thrives on Evicting Tenants from the Properties He Owns and Keeps His Clerk, BOB CRATCHIT, Working in Poverty and Cold Conditions.
One Christmas Eve, He’s Visited by the Spector of His Dead Business Partner, Jacob Marley, Who Warns Him that He Must Change His Ways, Lest He Suffer the Sufer Spirit, wrapped in chains and heavy, ghostly cash boxes.
Marley has organized a redemptive chance for scrooge – – He’ll Encounter Three Further Spirits, Represting Christmas Past, Present and Future, Future, All of Whom Show Him Visalss Intended to Tach Him the least of Christmas.
Scrooge scoffs at the idea, but on his journey with the three ghosts, he sees where his life choices have leed him, his negative impact on the world now, and what that Might Meat Mean Going Forward.
Spoiler Alert! He’s terrified and chasened, resolving to do better in future, and indeed batcomes, in dickens’ words, “as good a friend, as good a friend, and as good a man, ash good a man, as the good old city knew, or any Old cite knew, or any one else City, Town, Or Borough, In the Good old World. “
Dickens’ Work is a moral fable, at Once Embracing The Christmas Traditions (Carols, Cards and More) That was decided popular at the time, and helping to spread them forth.
It has been adapted countless times for screens bot big and small, including famous versions such as a 1951 movie starring Alastair SimA 1984 tv movie with George C. Scottand Robert zmeckis‘2009 performance capture cg take, in which Jim carrey Plays scrooge and a variety of other characters.
Two perennial favorite versions? The Bill Murray-Led ‘Scrooged’ from 1988 and 1992’s ‘The MUPPET Christmas Carol,’ boasting Michael Caine As the main character along with the fuzzy icons.
What eggers have planned remains to bee seen, thought we’D hazard a gues at fewer singing vegetables and more of a mood along the likes of the dark 2019 tv adaptation from Steven KnightWith Guy pearce Playing scrooege.
Dafoe feels like a solid choice for scrooge, but will the director maintain another recent traction and hire a skarsgård for a role? There are plenty of others in the family waiting in the wings after Alexander appeared in ‘The Northman’ and Bill Buried Himself Under Prosthetics for ‘Nosferatu.’
What Else does Robert Eggers have in Development?
Director Robert Eggers on the set of his film ‘Nosferatu’, a focus features release.
Credit: Aidan Monaghan / © 2024 focus features llc.
Eggers have been jugging a few projects, but it appears that ‘Werwulf’ is at the front of the line. We don’t know much about the movie, but the title certainly points to some hairy, howling worker.
Elsewhere, He’s Got A Few Other Movies Bubbling Away.
Here’s What He Told Indewire About his process:
,[Medieval movie ‘The Knight’ is] on a shelf with a lot of screenplays. I have five things going on, beCause you never know what’s going to work, what’s going to appeal to people, what’s going to be Greenlit. This movie [‘Nosferatu’] was not greenlit three times. I Absolutely thought I was making a movie that has not gotten greenlit twice instead of this, so you next. You’ve got to have a lot of stuff going on. “
There is Also a Sequel to 1986 fantasy adventure ‘Labyrinth’Which is still floating Around Somewehere.
When would Robert Eggers’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ Haunt Theaters?
This is the first anyone has heard of eggers’ plan to adapt the christmas tale, with ‘Werwulf’ most likely the next project for the filmmaker to shooting to shooting to wait, weit at least a couple of living for. Christmas Carol ‘to Find Screens – – Assuming It does not get leapfrogged by another project.
Right now, ‘Werwulf’ is scheduled for release in the ‘nosferatu’ slot, which is to say December 25th, in 2026.
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