Title: A Christmas Carol
Description: Another mo-cap. project for Zemeckis!
BigMacGyver - July 5, 2007 01:22 PM (GMT)
Comingsoon.net reports that Bob Hoskins was asked by director robert zemeckis to star alongside Jim Carrey (who plays scrooge) in a motion-capture 3-D version of the famous charles dickens tale.
Cool news to me! I hope Zemeckis will direct this because Zemeckis, Christmas and Alan Silvestri have to result in a great score!
CDUMAS - July 6, 2007 01:13 AM (GMT)
Great! I love 3-D and everything but i would love to see some live-action stuff.
AlexK - July 6, 2007 10:08 PM (GMT)
I love "A Christmas Carol"! A Zemeckis/Silvestri take on this story would be amazing. But Carrey as Scrooge? Hmm....
BigMacGyver - July 7, 2007 09:32 AM (GMT)
It's CONFIRMED!
A Christmas Carol will be Robert Zemeckis next after Beowulf. Read more
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| The Hollywood trades have confirmed Thursdays' report that Jim Carrey will play Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Future in A Christmas Carol, an adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale that Robert Zemeckis wrote and will direct for Walt Disney Pictures. |
ESB - July 7, 2007 07:23 PM (GMT)
Interesting. Zemeckis is really into CGI. It must be fascinating for him to be at the front of new CGI developments.
BigMacGyver - July 7, 2007 08:11 PM (GMT)
CGI is like a magic box of unlimited possibilities. There are no borders and its really a comfortable tool to use if you know how to handle it and work with people who can handle it.
However, i read in the hollywood reporter that a christmal carol will be a combo of mo-cap animation and live action. Looks like we will still see the real carrey playing scrooge but his performance for the three ghosts will most certainly be mo-cap animation. I also think that this combo means less rendering time and a much faster production than for purely mo-cap projects like beowulf. My hope is a christmas 2009 release.
BigMacGyver - July 24, 2007 09:22 AM (GMT)
Some rather odd but also interesting bits about the casting have come up on the net. You can read the full story at
aintitcool.com:
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| Jim Hill Media has a very interesting report that Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Tom Hanks are all in talks to join Zemeckis' "A Christmas Carol".... |
I wonder if thats even possible to have so many big names in a film where the main focus is pretty much one character only. Somehow, i can even see Fox and Lloyd fitting into this when they play supporting roles but Tom Hanks? I can"t imagine him playing a supporting role.
BigMacGyver - October 5, 2007 06:50 PM (GMT)
A Christmas Carol now has an official release date according to
boxofficemojo.
It will come out November 6th, 2009!
Anakin McFly - October 9, 2007 07:37 AM (GMT)
I had read in an interview, years ago, that Zemeckis considered this Dickens' book like the best time travel story of all times. So I guess he'll direct this movie under the BTTF-like "time travelling" angle, a strongly significant theme in his career ! Very interesting indeed, musically and cinematographically speaking !
ESB - December 9, 2007 03:13 PM (GMT)
It has been officially confirmed to me that Alan will score "A Christmas Carol".
Rick O'Connell - December 9, 2007 05:18 PM (GMT)
2 confirmations in 3 days! Now that's what I call a good week!
BigMacGyver - December 9, 2007 05:28 PM (GMT)
Of course it's always good to have assignments like gi joe or christmas carol confirmed.
On the other hand, these are no big surprises. I am waiting for Alan to team up with a fresh director again, maybe on something a little less big with more musical freedom, or a different genre.
He still does not have anything scheduled for 2008, so here is hope he will get something else in the weeks/months to come.
Sylvos - December 10, 2007 04:19 PM (GMT)
Alright! Another Silvestastic score to look forward to. And boy how good Alan is in Christmas scores. Hopefully this one gets a better treat than Polar Express (I'm still waiting for that "one day" when this score's gonna be released in full, in whatever form, hehe)
Interesting, why is it that Zemeckis is in love with motion-capture 3D films these days? They are cheaper to make perhaps? (Unlikely)
Rick O'Connell - December 10, 2007 05:31 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sylvos @ Dec 10 2007, 11:19 AM) |
| Interesting, why is it that Zemeckis is in love with motion-capture 3D films these days? They are cheaper to make perhaps? (Unlikely) |
Not cheaper, but a director has a lot more freedom I assume. You can literally create anything and shoot it any way imaginable. And the technology is realistic enough that it can't be written off as just a cartoon.
BigMacGyver - March 7, 2008 10:28 PM (GMT)
According to
comingsoon.net Jim Carrey was talking about working on christmas carol at a recent press conference:
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| "Ebenezer is such a great thing for me because, again, I get to play all kinds of different roles in the film. First of all, the process is so fascinating. You are literally in an empty warehouse with cameras around you. You have maybe a frame of a fireplace, or something like that, and then you rehearse. Then they go 'Can we take this away?' and you are sitting on a chair. You have to create the entire world in your head. Not only that, but you are working with other actors and you are in this ridiculous cap suit with balls all over it, and a hat with pinchers that come down with cameras in your face right here. The real work of it is transcending the lack of stimuli, and this stimulus that is right in your face. You have to transcend all of it and create the reality of the piece. Also, it's kind of a classical version of 'A Christmas Carol,' it is very much, so I'm playing Ebenezer Scrooge at four different ages. There are a lot of vocal things, a lot of physical things, I have to do. Not to mention doing the accents properly, the English, Irish accents. I'm also playing past, present, and future ghosts. There is a lot of really wonderful work in it, and challenge. I want it to fly in the UK. I want it to be good and I want them to go, 'Yeah, that's for real.' We were very true to the book. It's beautiful. It's an incredible film. If you are lucky at some point in your life to have that kind of 'Christmas Carol' moment, I certainly have. Things were going south and I had the opportunity to see how horrible things could have gotten without them actually going there. I can't get into specifics but I had my Ghost of Christmas Future at a certain point in my life. I went 'Oh wow. Okay, I have to really start caring about the right things here.' It's just a fantastic story. It's beautiful literature." |
BigMacGyver - April 1, 2008 08:57 AM (GMT)
More details on christmas carol as well as the performance capture process and its future can be found on
aintitcool.com!
It's a very nice article and a highly recommended read!
BigMacGyver - August 5, 2008 12:08 PM (GMT)
First international image for a christmas carol is up at
badtaste.it Frank - August 10, 2008 09:46 AM (GMT)
They've deleted the image at the request of Disney.
BigMacGyver - August 10, 2008 09:54 AM (GMT)
I hope this does not mean we have to wait until 3 months before the cinematic release again until there will be any official images. I think part of why beowulf did not become the expected big success was that the marketing campain startet way too late in the game (we did not even get a teaser trailer early on). Certainly, its more paramounts marketing department that is to blame and not the makers of the film.
I hope disney won't make the same mistake.
Anakin McFly - August 10, 2008 11:24 AM (GMT)
I don't understand why forbidding advertising around the movie. It's the only way for people to get aware of the project and impatient for it to happen !