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 couple of. Subsequent up for the long-lasting story, although, is what we will 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 hooked up but, Eggers is reportedly eyeing frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe to play the lead character of Ebenezer Scrooge.

If you happen to’re like us, your thoughts is at present attempting to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears like, and it’s not a fairly image, in the very best manner. Eggers has largely averted diversifications, as a substitute 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 give attention to—you guessed—werewolves.

When you consider 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 lot 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 manner. And that’s earlier than you even put Dafoe within the position of Scrooge. It’s mainly 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 at present 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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