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

Over the many years, 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 couple of. Subsequent up for the enduring story, although, is what we will solely assume is a a lot darker, scarier twist from none other than Robert Eggers.

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

When you’re like us, your thoughts is at present making an attempt to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears to be like like, and it’s not a fairly image, in the absolute best means. Eggers has largely prevented variations, as an alternative preferring deep, private analysis to tell his personal authentic tales, although that barely modified with Nosferatu. Subsequent up, he’s co-written and will direct Werwulf, one other interval horror piece which is able to concentrate on—you guessed—werewolves.

When you concentrate on A Christmas Story, although, it’s simply so in Eggers’ wheelhouse. There’s the unique, interval setting, after all. 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 function of Scrooge. It’s principally the function 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 at present taking a look at a Christmas 2026 launch.  However, if Christmas Carol is subsequent, there appears to be an excellent probability that Christmas 2028 would possibly simply scare the Dickens out of us.

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