Robert Eggers Is Making a ‘Christmas Carol’ Film, and Willem Dafoe Could Be Scrooge

Over the many years, 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 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 studies that the person behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and final yr’s shock hit Nosferatu, is in talks to jot down 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.

Should you’re like us, your thoughts is presently making an attempt to determine what an Eggers model of this story seems like, and it’s not a reasonably image, in the very best approach. Eggers has largely averted variations, as a substitute preferring deep, private analysis to tell his personal unique 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 concentrate on—you guessed—werewolves.

When you concentrate on 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 number 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 approach. 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 presently a Christmas 2026 launch.  However, if Christmas Carol is subsequent, there appears to be an excellent probability that Christmas 2028 would possibly simply scare the Dickens out of us.

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