News robert eggers Robert Eggers Will Bless Us, Every One, With a New Version of A Christmas Carol This will not be your cute and cozy Carol. By Molly Templeton | Published on June 12, 2025 Screenshot: Focus Features Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Focus Features Filmmaker Robert Eggers has had his way with vampires (Nosferatu, pictured above) and witches (The Witch), and has werewolves on the docket with Werwulf, his next film. And now he’s set his sights on ghosts: Variety reports that Eggers is developing a new take on the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. Even better, he might get Willem Dafoe to play Scrooge. As Variety notes, “While no talent is currently attached to the project in this nascent stage, individuals familiar with development noted Eggers’ longtime working relationship and fondness for Dafoe. Sources would not be surprised if the Nosferatu star made it into the package in the near future.” Dafoe starred in Eggers’ The Lighthouse, with Robert Pattinson, and was also in The Northman. There are more existing adaptations of A Christmas Carol than a person can count on all fingers and toes; they range from the obvious and beloved (1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol) to the dark and traumatized (the 2019 miniseries starring Guy Pearce). In the ’90s, there was a Broadway musical with music by Alan Menken. Obviously, there’s the Bill Murray-starring Scrooged. There are also ballets, graphic novels, and operas. All of this is to say that the world is not likely hankering for yet another Carol—but if anyone’s likely to do something different with it, it might be Eggers.[end-mark] The post Robert Eggers Will Bless Us, Every One, With a New Version of <i>A Christmas Carol</i> appeared first on Reactor.