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EXCLUSIVE: After hitting a house run through the holidays together with his critically-acclaimed new tackle the Nosferatu story, Robert Eggers seems to be to be staying within the Christmas spirit for a brand new challenge he has his sights set on. Sources inform Deadline Warner Bros. Pictures is in improvement with Eggers to jot down and direct a retelling of the traditional Christmas ghost story, A Christmas Carol. Insiders add whereas negotiations usually are not below approach with any expertise, Eggers is writing the position of Ebenezer Scrooge for his longtime collaborator Willem Dafoe because the best choice to play the traditional Charles Dickens character.
Chris Columbus and Elenor Columbus are connected to provide by way of Maiden Voyage. Eggers can even produce.
A Christmas Carol and seen its fair proportion of retellings through the years and tells the story of, an aged miser who’s visited by the ghost of his former enterprise accomplice Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The traditional Dickens story appears to be proper in Eggers wheelhouse not solely due to the supernatural parts on the heart of the story however time interval appears to be an ideal match for his visible type.
Nosferatu Eggers greatest box-office hit of his profession bringing in $181 million worldwide together with 95 million domestically. The movie was additionally an enormous hit with critics who touched on the unimaginable visible type of the movie that may result in 4 Oscar nominations for the movie.
Next up for Eggers is the Focus Features pic Werwulf, which he plans to shoot later this yr.
Dafoe has grow to be the administrators muse as of late having beforehand appeared in his final three movies, The Lighthouse, The Northman and Nosferatu.
Eggers is repped by Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Dafoe is repped by WME and Circle Management + Production.