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Finn Wolfhard Had No Idea He Was Auditioning for ‘Ghostbusters’
Excuse me while I chuckle for a second… the filmmakers behind the new Ghostbusters auditioned Finn Wolfhard? Like, they physically made him drive into the studio lot and read some lines in front of a camera like an asshole? He’s fuckin’ Finn Wolfhard, the scene-stealing star of both “Stranger Things” and “It: Chapter One” that should be instantly castable if he’s interested in your movie. And Ghostbusters? He was born for the role, yet he was put through the wringer and didn’t even know what he was auditioning for. That’s funny.
Wolfhard tells MTV at the ongoing CinemaCon:
“It’s all secret. It’s like completely, ya know — I didn’t even know what I was auditioning for when I auditioned for it.”
From #CinemaCon, @FinnSkata tells us that the new @Ghostbusters movie is so secret that he didn’t even know he was auditioning for it #GB20 pic.twitter.com/2IcZ1B1vzn
— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) April 3, 2019
Mckenna Grace, last seen playing a young Carol Danvers in Marvel Studio’s Captain Marvel, has booked the lead role in Sony’s sequel, it was reported last week. She joins Wolfhard and Carrie Coon (Widows).
In the canonized sequel to the original Ghostbusters films…
“A family moves back home to a small town where they learn more about who they are.”
The story centers on a single mom and her children. Grace will play the daughter, while Coon is in talks to play the mom, and Wolfhard is in talks to play her son.
Sony has slated Jason Reitman’s sequel to be released on July 20, 2020.
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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge
Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.
The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.
Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.
Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.
A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”
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