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 just a few. 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 studies that the person behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and final 12 months’s shock hit Nosferatu, is in talks to put in writing 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.

For those who’re like us, your thoughts is presently attempting to determine what an Eggers model of this story seems to be like, and it’s not a reasonably image, in the absolute best manner. Eggers has largely prevented variations, 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 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 combo 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 form of the right bullseye in each single manner. 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 probability that Christmas 2028 may simply scare the Dickens out of us.

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