Willem Dafoe to Star in Robert Eggers "A Christmas Carol" Adaptation

[Danja]

Robert Eggers Writing And Directing ‘A Christmas Carol’ For Warner Bros; Willem Dafoe Top Choice To Star

Robert Eggers is developing a new 'Christmas Carol' Movie At Warner Bros with Willem Dafoe his top choice to star.

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I can see Dafoe as Scrooge.

 

[Orac]

How many adaptions for film and television is that now? I'd wager over a hundred.

Charlie Dickens'll still be in third place after WIlly Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle with the most English language stories adapted for film and telly.

 

[Captaindemotion]

The ghosts of Christmas past will be played by assorted Skaarsgard brothers. Ralph Ineson as Marley.

 

[Starkers]

I could also see Ineson as Ghost of Christmas Future.

Anya Taylor-Joy as Scrooge's former fiancée in the Ghost of Christmas Past segment.

 

[Starkers]

How many adaptions for film and television is that now? I'd wager over a hundred.

Charlie Dickens'll still be in third place after WIlly Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle with the most English language stories adapted for film and telly.

And Alastair Sim is still probably the definitive Scrooge

 

[cardinal biggles]

And Alastair Sim is still probably the definitive Scrooge

George C. Scott would like a word with you.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

George C. Scott would like a word with you.

And Michael Caine.

 

[Orac]

Patty Stewart was better.