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 long-lasting 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 12 months’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.
If you happen to’re like us, your thoughts is at the moment attempting to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears like, and it’s not a reasonably image, in the very best manner. Eggers has largely averted variations, as an alternative 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 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. Numerous alternatives for evocative and delightful units, creatures, and costumes. Plus, for Hollywood, it’s a reputation model. It’s type of the proper 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 is also attached to a reboot of Labyrinth, so there’s no phrase about which movie would go after Werwulf, which is at the moment 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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