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Johnny Depp’s Ebenezer opens November 13
Paramount’s Ebenezer opens in U.S. theaters November 13. Here’s what the release confirms and what Dickens’s ghost story offers a horror director.
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The release dates
Johnny Depp plays Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, opening in U.S. theaters November 13. The film puts the ghosts at the center of a story many audiences already know by heart.
Paramount confirmed the U.S. date on its film page and reiterated the Friday opening in its November 9 investor release. Paramount’s German site lists November 12 for Germany and credits Nathaniel Halpern with the screenplay. The cast includes Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Andrea Riseborough as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Tramell Tillman as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Paramount’s November 9 release confirmation
A haunting built around one person
The original novella is already a ghost story. In Dickens’s book, the first visitor is Scrooge’s dead business partner. The spirits that follow change the kind of evidence Scrooge has to face. A memory puts his own decisions in view. The present shows the lives going on around him. The future gives him a glimpse of where his habits could lead.
That structure gives an adaptation a choice about what to show first. Imagine a fictional shot of a visitor at a closed office door. Start on the visitor and the audience studies what has arrived. Stay with the person inside, listening as the footsteps stop, and the audience has to read what he’s afraid to recognize. The door and the visitor can stay the same. The order of the shots changes whose fear guides the scene.
Paramount presents West’s film as a supernatural journey through Scrooge’s past, present and future. The release-week question is how long the film makes us sit with Scrooge before we see what he sees. The office-door example is invented. It describes no scene from the film.
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