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Old 07-06-07, 01:55 PM
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A Christmas Carol (not with Picard) - News, Rumors, Castings

Jim Carrey set for 'Christmas Carol'
Zemeckis directing Dickens adaptation
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Jim Carrey will play Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts that haunt him in "A Christmas Carol," an adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale that Robert Zemeckis wrote and will direct for Walt Disney Pictures.

Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey will produce through ImageMovers Digital. The trio recently made an overall Disney deal for their ImageMovers banner.

Zemeckis will shoot the film using "performance capture/Disney digital 3-D" animation, a continuing evolution of techniques he introduced in "Polar Express" and continues with "Beowulf," the upcoming film that stars Angelina Jolie.

"A Christmas Carol" will also feature a touch of live action and computer graphics, the latter of which ImageMovers employed in the Gil Kenan-directed "Monster House."

The technology provides a playground for the chameleon-like Carrey, who will act the character of Scrooge through several all the periods of his life, as well as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Zemeckis wrote the script specifically with Carrey in mind and the actor said yes straight away.


It's the second iconic holiday role for Carrey, who played the title character in the Ron Howard-directed "Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

Bob Hoskins has blabbed to the Internet that he would also be in "A Christmas Carol," inadvertently revealing a project that ImageMovers had been trying to keep secret. While Hoskins--who starred for Zemeckis in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"--might end up in the film, the studio denied that any deal had yet been made with him.

"A Christmas Carol" becomes one of several high profile projects for Carrey, who hasn't determined which he'll make next, or how many he'll be able to complete by next summer, when studios are bracing for possible labor stoppage.

A Carrey priority is "Ripley's Believe it Or Not!," and Paramount, armed with a Steve Oedekerk rewrite, is trying to find a schedule that will allow Tim Burton to direct, even as he completes post-production on "Sweeney Todd," the DreamWorks musical that stars Johnny Depp and Sacha Baron Cohen.

Carrey is also set to play a gay prison escapee in "I Love You Phillip Morris," the Andrew Lazar-produced dark independent comedy written and directed by the "Bad Santa" team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Carrey's also going to play a reluctant nursemaid to his ailing wife and her family in the Fox comedy "Me Time," scripted by Ian Roberts and Jay Martel. And Carrey just signed on to star in "Sober Buddies," the Andrew Kurtzman-scripted comedy for Universal and Stuber/Parent.
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I'm sure Professor X loves it when people refer to him as "Picard" rather than his real name.
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Well, I didn't know how many characters I can place in a title heading.. and I figure people would ask, "Jon Stewart was in A Christmas Carol?"
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Sounds like Jim Carrey is pulling an Eddie Murphy or a Mike Myers by playing multiple characters himself.
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Originally Posted by Yavin
Sounds like Jim Carrey is pulling an Eddie Murphy or a Mike Myers by playing multiple characters himself.
Didn't he already do that in the Lemony Snicket movie?
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Originally Posted by Groucho
Didn't he already do that in the Lemony Snicket movie?
Good point. I completely forgot about that. In that case, it sounds like Jim Carrey is pulling an Eddie Murphy or a Mike Myers by playing multiple characters himself ... again.
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wait wait..let me get this straight,a new modern twist to a story that has been done 100 of times starring a big actor with a big bag of recent flops using a technique that was used to a movie that didn't do well?

good luck Disney.


if this doesn't have a big "FLOP" all over it then what does?


i LOVED The Polar Express though and iam looking forward to Beowulf.
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He's not pulling a Murphy of a Myers... they did live action


This is Jim pulling a Tom Hanks (polar express)
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Originally Posted by GuessWho
He's not pulling a Murphy of a Myers... they did live action


This is Jim pulling a Tom Hanks (polar express)
Ah, yes, didn't read the article carefully enough. This is not my day for reading (got home late last night from a White Stripes concert) ...
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Originally Posted by Yavin
Sounds like Jim Carrey is pulling an Eddie Murphy or a Mike Myers by making crappy family films.
Fixed.
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I was just thinking how they should make a movie version of A Christmas Carol.

I'll probably check it out. It'll make a nice companion piece with The Polar Express.

Robert Zemeckis has always been one of my favorite directors. I'll see this and Beowulf but I'm really hoping he'll get back into live action films again soon.
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I gues I'll check it out. I love all versions of A Christmas Carol.
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Hands down, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best version. Jim Carrey sure likes playing 'Grinche's' in Christmas movies.
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Originally Posted by nateman241
Hands down, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best version. Jim Carrey sure likes playing 'Grinche's' in Christmas movies.
Michael Caine is awesome in that, but what about Scrooged?
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Michael Caine is awesome in that, but what about Scrooged?
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Re: A Christmas Carol (not with Picard) - News, Rumors, Castings

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney...stmascarol/hd/

This is, without a doubt, some of the worst animation I've seen come from a major studio. These look like high-res video game cut scenes from five years ago. Just absolutely horrid.
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Re: A Christmas Carol (not with Picard) - News, Rumors, Castings

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This is, without a doubt, some of the worst animation I've seen come from a major studio. These look like high-res video game cut scenes from five years ago. Just absolutely horrid.
Are you sure you're not in the Avatar thread?
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Re: A Christmas Carol (not with Picard) - News, Rumors, Castings

Originally Posted by The Bus
http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney...stmascarol/hd/

This is, without a doubt, some of the worst animation I've seen come from a major studio. These look like high-res video game cut scenes from five years ago. Just absolutely horrid.
+1 .
Looks like one of those knockoffs like the ones shown in the Asylum DVD thread.
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Re: A Christmas Carol (not with Picard) - News, Rumors, Castings

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Are you sure you're not in the Avatar thread?
I was at the 3D event. Avatar has some of the best animation I've seen.

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