Netflix has posted a trailer for Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, its subsequent animated adaption of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic.
The adaptation is a very traditional animated version, with some lovely character designs and some amusing animals but acting as a rather plain recounting of the narrative.
A Christmas Carol, one of the most recognized Christmas stories of all time, has had several great film and television versions, but it’s been a while since one was a big smash.
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Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Official Trailer
The current version of the classic story, as shown in the two-minute trailer of Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, is significantly more colorful than earlier versions, with Netflix promising a supernatural, time-traveling, musical recreation of the classic Christmas story with “re-imagined tunes.”
Everyone else in London is depicted in the trailer happily because it is the most beautiful time of the year: Christmas. Scrooge is initially seen pushing two tiny children aside so that he may stroll between them.
Scrooge then informs his employee, Bob Cratchit, that the ink he is using for his job will be removed from his wages (a slight twist on the classic tale, where Scrooge scolds Cratchit for using too much coal to heat the office, not too much ink).
Finally, after walking furiously through the snow to his enormous, empty mansion where he lives alone, The spirit of his deceased business partner confronts him—Jacob Marley, who informs Scrooge about the other three ghosts who will visit him throughout the night.
Evans makes an excellent Scrooge, and judging from the trailer, he desperately needs Christmas happiness. Hopefully, the three spirits that come to see him can do their jobs as usual.
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Characters we saw in the trailer.
Luke Evans playing Scrooge
Johnny Flynn playing Bob Cratchit
Jonathan Pryce playing Jacob Marley
Olivia Colman playing the ghost of Christmas Past
Trevor Dion Nicholas playing the spirit of Christmas Present
The excellent voice cast for this Scrooge story includes Jessie Buckley as Isabel Fezziwig, Fra Fee as Harry Huffam, Giles Terera as Tom Jenkins, and James Cosmo as Mr. Fezziwig.
The late Leslie Bricusse OBE wrote the music for Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, and he had a lengthy career in the industry, having received two Academy Awards and a Grammy for his work.
Jeremy Holland-Smith (Atonement) also contributed to the film’s score as arranger and producer. The film’s producers were Ralph Kamp, Andrew Pearce, and Bricusse, with Rebecca Kamp and Gareth Kamp serving as co-producers.
On November 18 in the United States, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol will be screened in a few cinemas. On December 2, it will be accessible on Netflix.
