Overview

• Warner Bros has tapped Eggers to both write and direct its new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic ghost story.
• Chris Columbus and Eleanor Columbus will produce the film under their Maiden Voyage banner alongside Eggers.
• Eggers is crafting the role of Ebenezer Scrooge with Willem Dafoe as the top choice to portray the miserly protagonist.
• Nosferatu’s $181 million worldwide box-office haul has raised Eggers’s profile and paved the way for this major studio debut.
• After this project, Eggers is slated to direct Werwulf for Focus Features later this year.