Robert Eggers Is Making a ‘Christmas Carol’ Film, and Willem Dafoe Could Be Scrooge

Over the a long time, few stories have been as malleable as Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Story. It’s been a Invoice Murray comedy, it’s been a Robert Zemeckis CGI fest, and it’s even been a Muppet movie, simply to call a number of. Subsequent up for the long-lasting story, although, is what we are able to solely assume is a a lot darker, scarier twist from none other than Robert Eggers.

Deadline reviews that the person behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and final 12 months’s shock hit Nosferatu, is in talks to jot down and direct an adaptation of the story for Warner Bros. And, although no forged is connected but, Eggers is reportedly eyeing frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe to play the lead character of Ebenezer Scrooge.

In the event you’re like us, your thoughts is presently attempting to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears to be like like, and it’s not a reasonably image, in the very best means. Eggers has largely averted variations, as an alternative preferring deep, private analysis to tell his personal unique tales, although that barely modified with Nosferatu. Subsequent up, he’s co-written and will direct Werwulf, one other interval horror piece which can deal with—you guessed—werewolves.

When you concentrate on A Christmas Story, although, it’s simply so in Eggers’ wheelhouse. There’s the unique, interval setting, in fact. The combination of pathos with fantasy and horror. A number of alternatives for evocative and exquisite units, creatures, and costumes. Plus, for Hollywood, it’s a reputation model. It’s type of the proper bullseye in each single means. And that’s earlier than you even put Dafoe within the position of Scrooge. It’s principally the position he was born to play.

Eggers is also attached to a reboot of Labyrinth, so there’s no phrase about which movie would go after Werwulf, which is presently taking a look at a Christmas 2026 launch.  However, if Christmas Carol is subsequent, there appears to be an excellent likelihood that Christmas 2028 would possibly simply scare the Dickens out of us.

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