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Over the decades, Few stories have been so malleable Like Charles Dickens’ A Christmas story. It was a comedy by Bill Murray, it was a Robert Zemeckis CGI festival, and It was even a MUPET filmTo name only a few. The next step for the emblematic tale, however, this is what we can only assume that it is a much darker and more frightening touch of No one other than Robert Eggers.
Deadline report that the man behind The witch, the lighthouse, the northmanAnd the surprise blow from last year Handicapis in talks to write and direct an adaptation of the history of Warner Bros. And, although no casting is still attached, Eggers would have watched the frequent employee Willem Dafoe to play the main character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
If you are like us, your mind is currently trying to understand what an Eggers version of this story looks like, and it is not a nice image, in the best possible way. Eggers largely avoided adaptations, preferring deep personal research to inform his own original stories, although this has changed slightly with Handicap. Then he is co-written and direct WerwulfAnother period of horror of period on which will be concentrated – you guessed it – was relaxing.
When you think about A Christmas storyHowever, it is so in the wheelhouse of the Eggers. There is of course the original setting of the period. The mixture of pathos with fantasy and horror. Lots of opportunities for evocative and magnificent sets, creatures and costumes. In addition, for Hollywood, it is a name brand. It is sort of the perfect bullseye in all ways. And it is even before putting Dafoe in the role of scrooge. This is essentially the role he was born in playing.
Eggers is also attached to a restart of LabyrinthSo there is no word on which film would go after Werwulfwho is currently considering a version of Christmas 2026. But if Christmas song It is then, there seems to be a very good chance that Christmas 2028 could frighten us the Dickens.
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