Overview

• Warner Bros has tapped Robert Eggers to write and direct an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as his first feature for the studio.
• He will produce the project alongside Chris and Eleanor Columbus through their Maiden Voyage Pictures banner.
• Eggers is scripting the role of Ebenezer Scrooge with longtime collaborator Willem Dafoe as the top choice to lead the cast.
• The film joins Eggers’s busy slate, which includes the 2026 werewolf thriller Werwulf and a forthcoming Labyrinth sequel for TriStar Pictures.
• His previous film, Nosferatu, grossed over $181 million worldwide and earned four Oscar nominations, bolstering confidence in his dark, period-driven vision.