Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a brand new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively debuted three brand new images from Ebenezer this week, giving us new looks at Johnny Depp’s Scrooge as well as Ian McKellen’s Jacob Marley, Tramell Tillman’s Ghost of Christmas Present, and Rupert Grint’s Bob Cratchit.
Ti West’s vision for A Christmas Carol? A spookier version than we’ve seen before.
Ti West explains to EW, “I’ve always thought no one’s really made the movie version where the ghosts are a little bit spooky.”
“I love the book, so I’m really not trying to do a spin on the story that is not faithful to the story or is some sort of meta tweak on it,” he tells the outlet. “It is genuine. It has its own perspective, and it has its own places where it deviates a little bit. And stylistically, I do certain things with it that are maybe in my wheelhouse, but they’re all very much in reverence of the text.”
Paramount is bringing Scrooge to theaters on November 13, 2026.
Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), 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 in Ebenezer.
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.”
