Nosferatu Maestro Robert Eggers May Write and Direct a Christmas Carol Remake for Willem Dafoe to Play Scrooge

Now here’s an absorbing filmmaker-studio twist. The Witch and Nosferatu maestro Robert Eggers is being eyed to helm a remake of A Christmas Carol astatine Warner Bros., and helium has his sights acceptable connected nary different than Willem Dafoe to play his Ebenezer Scrooge.

According to a study from Variety, nary endowment — that means Eggers nor Dafoe — is attached to the task astatine this stage, but Eggers is being considered and helium has involvement successful having his longtime collaborator instrumentality up the starring role. The movie is presently successful improvement astatine the studio, truthful it would beryllium a portion earlier this would travel to fruition anyway.

Eggers is presently acceptable to constitute and nonstop Werwulf, a play fearfulness movie helium has successful the works astatine Focus Features, up of thing else. So it stands to crushed that this task would travel aft that, and possibly would beryllium acceptable to sprout conscionable arsenic Eggers finishes with his 13th period nightmare. But wrenches tin ever beryllium thrown successful the mix, truthful who knows.

The filmmaker antecedently called Werwulf “the darkest thing” he’s written “by far,” truthful it’s absorbing to deliberation what helium mightiness bash with a classical communicative similar A Christmas Carol. He could proceed connected that streak we present cognize him truthful good for, oregon helium could lighten things up a tad — but thing tells maine helium mightiness instrumentality the acheronian of A Christmas Carol to its logical extreme. And that’s truly exciting.

Werwulf was co-written by Sjon, with whom Eggers wrote The Northman and volition constitute the upcoming Labyrinth sequel, and presently has a Christmas 2026 merchandise day connected the books. It remains to beryllium seen erstwhile we’ll spot an authoritative announcement connected A Christmas Carol, but if they purpose for a 2027 release, it mightiness not beryllium arsenic acold disconnected arsenic we think.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.