Robert Eggers Is Making a ‘Christmas Carol’ Film, and Willem Dafoe Might 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 a number of. Subsequent up for the enduring story, although, is what we will solely assume is a a lot darker, scarier twist from none other than Robert Eggers.

Deadline experiences that the person behind The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and final 12 months’s shock hit Nosferatu, is in talks to put in writing 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 present making an attempt to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears to be like like, and it’s not a fairly image, in the absolute best means. 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 can deal with—you guessed—werewolves.

When you consider A Christmas Story, although, it’s simply so in Eggers’ wheelhouse. There’s the unique, interval setting, in fact. The combo of pathos with fantasy and horror. A lot 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 means. 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 at present taking a look at 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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