Overview
- Depp told Entertainment Tonight he plans “a different angle” on Scrooge and cited Alastair Sim’s 1951 performance as a touchstone.
- Ian McKellen and Tramell Tillman have joined the cast alongside Depp and Andrea Riseborough.
- Paramount has scheduled a theatrical release for November 13, 2026.
- The film is billed as a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, directed by Ti West from Nathaniel Halpern’s script and produced by Emma Watts with Stephen Deuters, Jason Forman, Adam Bohling and David Reid as executive producers.
- Sources say Tillman is likely to portray the Ghost of Christmas Present, with McKellen’s role undisclosed, and Warner Bros. is developing a separate Robert Eggers adaptation linked to Willem Dafoe.