Overview
- Paramount released a new trailer on Thursday that pushes Ti West’s version of A Christmas Carol toward ghostly, gothic visuals and hints at narrative twists beyond the story’s familiar beats.
- Johnny Depp headlines as Ebenezer Scrooge with Ti West directing from a Nathaniel Halpern script and Emma Watts producing.
- The studio confirmed the principal ensemble cast, which includes Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley, Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Daisy Ridley, Sam Claflin, Andrea Riseborough and Tramell Tillman.
- West and Halpern deliberately shape the film as a darker ghost story that adds moral ambiguity to Scrooge so the character can at times make persuasive arguments rather than read as one-dimensional.
- Ebenezer opens in U.S. theaters on November 13 and will serve as a commercial test of mixing West’s horror-leaning style with a star-driven Paramount release, with McKellen’s casting noted as a rare appearance in an A Christmas Carol adaptation.