‘A Christmas Carol’: Robert Eggers To Helm New Dickens Adaptation For Warner Bros., Wants Willem Dafoe As His Scrooge

Christmas comes early for horror fans with this news. Deadline reports that director Robert Eggers and Warner Bros. have a new adaptation of Charles Dickens‘ “A Christmas Carol” in the works. And while no one’s officially cast yet, insiders say Eggers wants Willem Dafoe on board as his Ebenezer Scrooge. If Dafoe joins the project, it’ll be his fourth movie with the director, after “The Lighthouse,” “The Northman,” and last year’s “Nosferatu.” READ MORE: ‘Werwulf’: Robert Eggers Says His Upcoming Pic Is “The Darkest Thing I’ve Ever Written, By Far” This project may come as a shock to those familiar with Eggers’ filmography. On closer inspection, however, it’s a sound choice for the horror auteur and works well within Eggers’ thematic paradigm. Dickens’ novella is a period piece, a ghost story, and features a main character whose materialist worldview gradually gets overrun by irruptions of esoteric forces and the supernatural. “A Christmas Carol” will also see Eggers adapt a work for the third time in his career, after “Nosferatu” and “The Northman.” And there’s been more film and TV adaptation of Dickens’ story over the years than “Nosferatu”/”Dracula” ones, so Eggers will have plenty of works to reference. Continue reading ‘A Christmas Carol’: Robert Eggers To Helm New Dickens Adaptation For Warner Bros., Wants Willem Dafoe As His Scrooge at The Playlist.

Jun 12, 2025 - 16:35

‘A Christmas Carol’: Robert Eggers To Helm New Dickens Adaptation For Warner Bros., Wants Willem Dafoe As His Scrooge

Christmas comes early for horror fans with this news. Deadline reports that director Robert Eggers and Warner Bros. have a new adaptation of Charles Dickens‘ “A Christmas Carol” in the works. And while no one’s officially cast yet, insiders say Eggers wants Willem Dafoe on board as his Ebenezer Scrooge. If Dafoe joins the project, it’ll be his fourth movie with the director, after “The Lighthouse,” “The Northman,” and last year’s “Nosferatu.”

READ MORE: ‘Werwulf’: Robert Eggers Says His Upcoming Pic Is “The Darkest Thing I’ve Ever Written, By Far”

This project may come as a shock to those familiar with Eggers’ filmography. On closer inspection, however, it’s a sound choice for the horror auteur and works well within Eggers’ thematic paradigm. Dickens’ novella is a period piece, a ghost story, and features a main character whose materialist worldview gradually gets overrun by irruptions of esoteric forces and the supernatural. “A Christmas Carol” will also see Eggers adapt a work for the third time in his career, after “Nosferatu” and “The Northman.” And there’s been more film and TV adaptation of Dickens’ story over the years than “Nosferatu”/”Dracula” ones, so Eggers will have plenty of works to reference.

Continue reading ‘A Christmas Carol’: Robert Eggers To Helm New Dickens Adaptation For Warner Bros., Wants Willem Dafoe As His Scrooge at The Playlist.