Robert Eggers Is Making a ‘Christmas Carol&#...

Over the a long time, 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 will solely assume is a a lot darker, scarier twist from none other than Robert Eggers.

Deadline stories 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 forged is connected but, Eggers is reportedly eyeing frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe to play the lead character of Ebenezer Scrooge.

For those who’re like us, your thoughts is at the moment making an attempt to determine what an Eggers model of this story appears like, and it’s not a fairly image, in the very best means. Eggers has largely prevented variations, as a substitute 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 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 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 form of the proper 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 the moment 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.

Need extra io9 information? Take a look at when to count on the newest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on film and TV, and the whole lot you have to find out about the way forward for Doctor Who.