Oh look! It's July, and we have a trailer for a Christmas ghost story! The trailer says "The name you know, the story you don't." Hogwash. Everyone knows the story of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. There have been over a hundred movie and TV adaptations of it. Knowing the story doesn't keep us from watching it again and again. The 2026 version titled Ebenezer stars Johnny Depp in the title role, along with Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Daisy Ridley as his wife, and Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley.
The trailer focuses on the star power of Depp and the many oddball characters he's played before. We can assume with this cast that the acting will be good. As far as I'm concerned, the success of Ebenezer will depend on how they portray the ghosts. Meanwhile, it is kind of nice to see scenes of falling snow while we swelter in the summer heat. Ebenezer opens on November 13th.
"The Master of Misfits" says it all. Looks good. HumBUG!
ReplyDelete8,500,000,000 people breathing air, and the movie makers use the same people all the time.
ReplyDeleteYou have to feel a bit ripped off when the person you knew as Edward Scissorhands, suddenly became Jack Sparrow, and is now Ebenezer.Scrooge
What next, Scrooge McDuck ?
How about someone we DON'T recognise ?
I may be the only one in this growing group of people who DON'T go to a movie because of who is in it.
I won't waste my money enriching wife beaters.
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