Two familiar faces have joined up with Johnny Depp, Andrea Riseborough and director Ti West for the upcoming Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol.
Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings) and recent Emmy winner Tramell Tillman (Succession) have joined the cast in undisclosed roles.
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The film marks Depp’s first major role in a film since his extremely public legal fight with Amber Heard.
Directed by horror filmmaker Ti West (X, Pearl, The House of the Devil), Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol is a new retelling of the classic novella from Charles Dickens.
Countless adaptations of the story have been made in the past 200 years, which revolve around a man named Ebenezer Scrooge who famously hates the holiday season until he is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future on Christmas Eve.
Since West is primarily a horror filmmaker, it remains to be seen whether this adaptation will also be a horror film or instead be more of a classic drama.
Funnily enough, this isn’t the only big-screen version of A Christmas Carol coming next year. Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe—who just worked together on the holiday-themed horror Nosferatu on Christmas—announced their own retelling of Dickens’ story in June where Dafoe will play Scrooge.
Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol will release in theaters on November 13, 2026.
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