PREVIEW: Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Johnny Flynn (The Score), Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose), James Cosmo (Braveheart), Fra Fee (Boys from County Hell), Trevor Dion Nicholas (film debut), Sil Van Der Zwan (Two by Two: Overboard!), Giles Terera (The Current War), Jemima Lucy Newman (film debut), Homer Todiwala (His House), Devon Pomeroy (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Stephen Donnelly (Monster High: Welcome to Monster High), director; Leslie Bricusse (Doctor Dolittle), writer; Ralph Kamp (The Deaths of Ian Stone) and Andrew Pearce (Monster High: Welcome to Monster High), producers; Jeremy Holland-Smith (The Passing), composer; Graham Silcock (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In Victorian England on Christmas Eve, unpleasant old miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Evans) is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley (Pryce), who tells him that he shall be haunted by the Ghosts of Christmas Past (Colman), Present (Nicholas), and Yet to Come…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Yes, it’s another adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Yuletide story, but this animated take on the material also takes cues from composer Leslie Bricusse’s popular musical version Scrooge, with new takes on the lyricist’s songs.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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