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Nosferatu Maestro Robert Eggers May Write and Direct a Christmas Carol Remake for Willem Dafoe to Play Scrooge

Now here’s an interesting filmmaker-studio twist. The Witch and Nosferatu maestro Robert Eggers is being eyed to helm a remake of A Christmas Carol at Warner Bros., and he has his sights set on none other than Willem Dafoe to play his Ebenezer Scrooge.

According to a report from Variety, no talent — that means Eggers nor Dafoe — is attached to the project at this stage, but Eggers is being considered and he has interest in having his longtime collaborator take up the leading role. The film is currently in development at the studio, so it would be a while before this would come to fruition anyway.

Eggers is currently set to write and direct Werwulf, a period horror film he has in the works at Focus Features, ahead of anything else. So it stands to reason that this project would come after that, and maybe would be ready to shoot just as Eggers finishes with his 13th century nightmare. But wrenches can always be thrown in the mix, so who knows.

The filmmaker previously called Werwulf “the darkest thing” he’s written “by far,” so it’s interesting to think what he might do with a classic story like A Christmas Carol. He could continue on that streak we now know him so well for, or he could lighten things up a tad — but something tells me he might take the darkness of A Christmas Carol to its logical extreme. And that’s really exciting.

Werwulf was co-written by Sjon, with whom Eggers wrote The Northman and will write the upcoming Labyrinth sequel, and currently has a Christmas 2026 release date on the books. It remains to be seen when we’ll see an official announcement on A Christmas Carol, but if they aim for a 2027 release, it might not be as far off as we think.

Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.


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