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Paramount has unveiled nan first footage from Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, its caller return connected Charles Dickens’ classical 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, directed by Ti West and starring Johnny Depp.
In A Christmas Carol — 1 of nan astir often adapted useful successful movie and tv history — we travel Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman who is visited by nan ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, forcing him to face his life and yet alteration his ways.
Footage previewed in-room-only successful Las Vegas showed everything you’d expect — a homely, aged looking Depp successful prosthetics, arsenic Scrooge, shouting “Ba, humbug!” and being visited by 3 ghosts, who will alteration his position connected life.
Paramount billed nan movie arsenic a “bold caller twist” connected a classical tale, pinch Depp connected manus to beforehand it pursuing a taped preamble from West.
Depp said it was “an bonzer privilege to measurement into a communicative I person been obsessed pinch since I was a small child.”
He added, “When I was approached by Ti West, my first thought was, there’s nary 1 who tin do it arsenic bully arsenic Alastair Sim did successful nan ’30s aliases whatever. It’s a magical performance. But past I thought, that’s nary logic not to effort something…I deliberation Ti really did thing very special.”
From Paramount, successful relation pinch Domain Entertainment, Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol releases November 13. Nathaniel Halpern penned nan script, pinch Emma Watts producing.
Ebenezer besides stars Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Charlie Murphy, Tramell Tillman, and Ian McKellen.
Exec producers connected nan task included David Reid, Adam Bohling, Stephen Deuters, Jason Forman, West, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro, and Andrew Lary.
