Robert Eggers Is Making a ‘Christmas Carol&#...

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 enduring 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 yr’s shock hit Nosferatu, is in talks to write down and direct an adaptation of the story for Warner Bros. And, although no solid is hooked up but, Eggers is reportedly eyeing frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe to play the lead character of Ebenezer Scrooge.

In case you’re like us, your thoughts is presently attempting to determine what an Eggers model of this story seems like, and it’s not a reasonably image, in the absolute best method. Eggers has largely averted diversifications, 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 can 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. Plenty of alternatives for evocative and delightful units, creatures, and costumes. Plus, for Hollywood, it’s a reputation model. It’s type of the proper bullseye in each single method. And that’s earlier than you even put Dafoe within the function of Scrooge. It’s mainly 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 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 may simply scare the Dickens out of us.

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