Over the a long time, 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 couple of. Subsequent up for the long-lasting story, although, is what we are able to solely assume is a a lot darker, scarier twist from none apart from 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 connected but, Eggers is reportedly eyeing frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe to play the lead character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
If you happen to’re like us, your thoughts is presently attempting to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears like, and it’s not a fairly image, in the very best method. Eggers has largely prevented variations, as an alternative preferring deep, private analysis to tell his personal unique tales, although that barely modified with Nosferatu. Subsequent up, he’s co-written and can 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 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 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 can be connected 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 likelihood that Christmas 2028 may simply scare the Dickens out of us.
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