Over the many years, few tales 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 film, simply to call a number 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 apart from Robert Eggers.
Deadline studies that the person behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northmanand final yr’s shock hit Nosferis 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.
Should you’re like us, your thoughts is at the moment making an attempt to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears like, and it’s not a fairly image, in the absolute best manner. Eggers has largely averted variations, as a substitute preferring deep, private analysis to tell his personal unique tales, although that barely modified with Nosfer. Subsequent up, he’s co-written and can direct Werwulfone other interval horror piece which is able to give attention to—you guessed—werewolves.
When you consider A Christmas Storyalthough, it’s simply so in Eggers’ wheelhouse. There’s the unique, interval setting, in fact. The combo 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 form of the right bullseye in each single manner. And that’s earlier than you even put Dafoe within the position of Scrooge. It’s principally the position he was born to play.
Eggers can be hooked up to a reboot of Labyrinthso there’s no phrase about which movie would go after Werwulfwhich is at the moment taking a look at 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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