Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ Opens Early
October 29, 2009 by cd
Season’s Greedings begin on November 6.
A Christmas Carol is a 2009 film adaptation of Charles Dickens‘ 1843 story of the same name. The film is written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Jim Carrey in a multitude of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge.
The 3-D film was produced through the process of performance capture, a technique Zemeckis has previously used in his films The Polar Express (2004) and Beowulf (2007).
The film will be released in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D. It will also be Disney’s third retelling of A Christmas Carol in 26 years, having released Mickey’s Christmas Carol in 1983 (using the in-house Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck characters) and later distributing The Muppet Christmas Carol for Jim Henson Productions in 1992, with Disney later acquiring the rights to The Muppets from Jim Henson Productions.
Here’s the plot of the film:
A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth. He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season. But an encounter with the ghostly figure of Jacob Marley (Gary Oldman) sets the stage for a mysterious and magical encounter with three phantasmic beings to help him realize the true magic of Christmas itself.
VIDEO LINK: A Christmas Carol – HD Trailer
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October 29th, 2009 at 5:43 am
i like to see this one and hoping that this one is better than jim previous movies ‘how the grinch stole christmas’ and much much better than ‘lemony snickets’s series of unfortunate events’.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I’m am supr excited for this movie. When will it be shown here in the Philippines?