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Carrey to become Xmas' Scrooge
09/07/2007 11:37 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Jim Carrey, who
brought Dr Seuss' Grinch to life on the big screen, will soon
portray another holiday curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, as well
as the three Christmas ghosts in a remake of A Christmas
Carol, the Walt Disney Co said on Friday.
Robert Zemeckis will direct from his own script, based on
the Charles Dickens classic novel, a Disney spokesperson
said.
The movie will blend live action with 3-D digital animation
and a computer-graphics style called "performance capture,"
which Zemeckis used in his 2004 holiday adventure The Polar
Express and his upcoming film Beowulf, the spokesperson
said.
Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director of Tom Hanks' 1994 hit
drama Forrest Gump, wrote his Christmas Carol screenplay
specifically for Carrey, who will portray the miserly Scrooge
through various periods of his life.
No release date yet
Carrey also will play the
ghosts of Christmases past, present and future who visit
Scrooge.
The movie will be produced through Zemeckis' production
company, ImageMovers Digital, and distributed by Walt Disney
Pictures. No release date has been set.
Several internet sites have reported that Bob Hoskins, who
starred in Zemeckis' 1988 live-action/animated comedy Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, also has been cast in A Christmas Carol
but Disney said no such deal is in place.
Seven years ago Carrey, 45, starred as the title character
in the Ron Howard-directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
based on the popular Dr Seuss story.
Grinch was a huge box-office hit but in recent years
Carrey has suffered through a string of flops such as Fun with
Dick and Jane and The Number 23.
Dickens' classic tale of a bitter, old merchant given a
Christmas Eve chance at redemption has been adapted many times
for TV and the movies, including two Hollywood versions -
1938's A Christmas Carol starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge
and 1951's Scrooge, with Alastair Sim in the title role.
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