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Robert Eggers will write and direct a retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:03 am
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:03 am
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EXCLUSIVE: After hitting a home run during the holidays with his new take on the Dracula story Nosferatu, Robert Eggers looks to be staying in the Christmas spirit for a new project he has set his sights on. Sources tell Deadline that Warner Bros is in development with Eggers who will write and direct a retelling of the classic Charles Dickens Christmas ghost story A Christmas Carol. Insiders add that while negotiations are not underway with talent, Eggers is writing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for his longtime collaborator Willem Dafoe.
Chris Columbus and Elenor Columbus are attached to produce via Maiden Voyage. Eggers will also produce.
A Christmas Carol has seen its fair share of retellings over the years with its tale of an elderly miser visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The classic Dickens tale seems to be right in Eggers’ wheelhouse, not only because of the supernatural elements but also because the time period seems a perfect fit for his visual style.
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Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:08 am to RLDSC FAN
Do we really need yet another take on this?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:09 am to RLDSC FAN
I’ll watch just to see how he incorporates someone with perpetual sexual arousal into it.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:10 am to SloaneRanger
With Eggers, yes lol. I loved Nosferatu
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:53 am to RLDSC FAN
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Robert Eggers
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A Christmas Carol
Sold
I've loved everything he has done so far. Dude is churning them out. Working on a Werewolf movie currently
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:57 am to GoCrazyAuburn
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Dude is churning them out.
I thought the Witch was ok, but I'm a big fan of The Lighthouse, The Northman, and Nosferatu. That's quite a nice run there.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:02 am to RLDSC FAN
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I thought the Witch was ok, but I'm a big fan of The Lighthouse
This is an odd statement, just knowing those two movies
I loved the Witch, but also can see why others didn't. Definitely a slow movie.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:07 am to GoCrazyAuburn
It's a well-made film, it just doesn't keep me interested like the Lighthouse does. The performances from Dafoe and Pattinson are incredible
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:10 am to RLDSC FAN
Totally get it. Just knowing how weird the Lighthouse is, it just struck me as funny
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:15 am to SloaneRanger
quote:Based on the number of previous successful and entertaining versions we've enjoyed over the past 125 years? Yes. Keep'em coming. The story is that good and that timeless.
Do we really need yet another take on this?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:16 am to RLDSC FAN
Will it be similar to this?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:16 am to RLDSC FAN
Didn’t FX recently do something like this?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:23 am to RLDSC FAN
I could certainly see him playing up the darker aspect of the story and he's good - if not sometimes excessive - at period representation. I just hope he doesn't decide to take the modern artistic approach of turning a story about hope into a tiresome morass of sadism and pointlessly edgy bullshite.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 11:52 am to RLDSC FAN
i have watched both and realy don’t like Either
the end of the VVitch when the devil shows up and offers her butter cracks me up. I offer
my butter like once a week
the end of the VVitch when the devil shows up and offers her butter cracks me up. I offer
my butter like once a week
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:16 pm to tigerfan84
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Didn’t FX recently do something like this?
That was released in the US by FX but it was a BBC production. It was also relentlessly depressing and changed a shitload of the story. Bob Cratchit's wife summoned the ghosts as punishment for Scrooge making her get naked to have money to help Tiny Tim. Scrooge was also molested at his boarding school as a child and his father knew about it but allowed it to happen so long as he didn't have to pay for tuition which was the basis for why he was a dick to everyone.
Just awful all the way around IMO.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:20 pm to SloaneRanger
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Do we really need yet another take on this?
I still say Scrooged is the best adaptation of the story to date.
If a modern version cannot do better than Scrooged, they shouldn't make it.
As far as the classical telling, I almost prefer watching it in a real theater than on TV.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:24 pm to RLDSC FAN
The only Ebenezer
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:31 pm to RLDSC FAN
Goody.
shite on another classic.
shite on another classic.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:32 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
How dare you insult Sir Michael Caine like that.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:34 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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How dare you insult Sir Michael Caine like that.
I will grant The Muppets' Christmas Carol an exemption.
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