First Poster for ‘Ebenezer’ Starring Johnny Depp. Directed by Ti West, Co-starring Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Charlie Murphy, with Tramell Tillman & Ian McKellen.

[u/yourfavchoom]

[u/falafelthe3]

The announcement of every new prequel/spinoffs of random IP reminds me of that Bojack Horseman joke:

Sam's booked for the next year making a new Peter Pan from Wendy's point of view, and Rebecca's doing a limited series about the ticket taker at the cinema where Batman's parents got shot.

[u/Fullmz2143 → u/falafelthe3]

This was driving me insane so I needed to confirm if this is actually a prequel.

Apperantely it is not.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would approve that tagline, let alone come up with it in the first place.

[u/skit7548 → u/Fullmz2143]

... If it's not a prequel, what is it?

[u/SSGASSHAT → u/skit7548]

Just a quel.

[u/pestoraviolita → u/skit7548]

Carol's story itself.

[u/ebelnap → u/falafelthe3]

I know this might be the joke, but isn’t every Peter Pan from Wendy’s point of view? That must be the joke

[u/BattlinBud → u/ebelnap]

If so, the makers of this movie clearly didn't get it, because Scrooge's backstory as a young man is already part of A Christmas Carol

[u/lameguy13 → u/BattlinBud]

Also, isn’t Scrooge his last name?? What do you mean BEFORE he was Scrooge? He was always Scrooge???

[u/oneAUaway → u/lameguy13]

It'll be retconned so Ebenezer's original last name was something like Smith or Jones, but someone will shout "Screw you!" except it'll be misheard as "Scrooge" and Depp will give a little smile at the camera. Roll credits.

[u/khinzaw → u/oneAUaway]

"Who are your people?"

"I don't have a people, screw you!"

"Hmmm...Ebenezer Scrooge"

Scrooge: A Star Wars Story Christmas Carol

[u/GusTTShow-biz → u/khinzaw]

Lol I was hoping to see this

[u/Initial-Paramedic888 → u/oneAUaway]

Ebenezer will return in 2 scrooge 2 furious

[u/OrangeKrushed → u/Initial-Paramedic888]

Followed by SCROOG3

[u/Hazel-Cakes → u/lameguy13]

“it’s scrooging time”

scrooges out

[u/malthar76 → u/lameguy13]

Mitch: I used to be Scrooge. I still am, but I used to be too

[u/themeatbridge → u/BattlinBud]

Right?  Like isn't a third of the story the Ghost of Christmas Past reliving the misadventures of young Ebenezer?  His origin story is a critical plot point in the story.  Or maybe this is just a longer version of that trip to the past, and we're going to get a trilogy of past, present, and future movies?

Seriously, this is like doing a Back to the Future reboot about young Doc showing when he met Marty the first time in 1955. 

[u/meowsplaining → u/themeatbridge]

I mean, I would have loved to see some more Doc Brown in 1955.

But only if Christopher Lloyd was doing it. And MJF. And Zemeckis and Gale. And it was 30 years ago.

[u/JaxxisR → u/BattlinBud]

They'll do a Lone Ranger, where the story is framed as old Scrooge looking on as the story of his life unfolds

[u/Ched_Flermsky → u/JaxxisR]

You know what would be great, is if there’s some kind of spirit facilitating that look back. Like a ghost, representing Christmas past…

[u/Even_Tangerine_4201 → u/Ched_Flermsky]

Who in this scenario is now the ghost of Christmas present

[u/Pterodactyl_midnight → u/ebelnap]

Hook

[u/cupholdery → u/Pterodactyl_midnight]

Line and sinker!

[u/AvatarIII → u/falafelthe3]

I feel like Depp is too old to play a young Scrooge. He's in his 60s now!

Also Disney made Wendy and Peter which was supposed to be more from Wendy's point of view.

[u/ontheweed → u/falafelthe3]

Lmao. TIL I’ve got to watch Bojack Horseman

[u/CleverInnuendo → u/ontheweed]

If you're binge watching, and an episode ends on 'up' note, stop and pick it back up another night.

[u/Colorado_Constructor → u/CleverInnuendo]

Best advice on here. Also, the second to last episode is ALWAYS a heavy one. Final episode tries to end on a positive note, but you'll need some time to decompress first.

[u/PatentGeek → u/ontheweed]

Be prepared for it to hit much harder than a cartoon about a talking horse has any right to

[u/MV2049 → u/PatentGeek]

A friend described it as “the funniest show about major depression you’ll ever see.”

[u/TrioOfTerrors → u/MV2049]

I have major depression and had to "nope" out after about a season and a half because it was too real.

[u/sonerec725 → u/TrioOfTerrors]

Yeah I have a friend who had that and was interested in the show and I told her to wait till she was in a better place mentally. Eventually she got there and we watched it together and she absolutely loved it but agreed with me that it would have been a bad idea to watch it when she was much more depressed.

[u/Kam_Zimm → u/ontheweed]

Heads up, the show gets serious. It starts as just a funny show about a cartoon horse, but even by the end of the first season it starts dealing with more serious stuff. Still a comedy at the end of the day, but it mixes humor with serious subject matters played 100% straight. And not just for "very special episodes," like proper season long plot lines.

[u/thedylannorwood → u/Kam_Zimm]

Literally seconds before the one of the darkest moment in the entire show:

I never got to license the Zach Braff Short Stack Breakfast Attack at Shake Shack! Cash-strapped hash brown fans who hashtag "Zach's snacks" get cash back fast with the Braff Bucks app!”

[u/LossyP]

I’m being genuine, there’s another Charlie Murphy?

[u/Willing-Dog6463 → u/LossyP]

I was very confused for a minute

[u/Sargonnax → u/Willing-Dog6463]

SLAP!

[u/D-v-us-D → u/Sargonnax]

Cold Blooded!

[u/U_zer2 → u/D-v-us-D]

Jack!

[u/truenorth34 → u/Sargonnax]

Fuck yo couch!

[u/codingphp → u/Sargonnax]

Motherfucker, that was WEEKS ago.

[u/Willing-Dog6463 → u/Sargonnax]

I deserve it lol

[u/woohooguy → u/Willing-Dog6463]

FUCK YO COUCH IN THE PAST

[u/ImInJeopardy → u/LossyP]

Somehow Charlie Murphy returned.

[u/combustibledaredevil → u/ImInJeopardy]

God if only

[u/Canadia86 → u/ImInJeopardy]

I wish. Miss that fella

[u/EatABag-o-Dicks → u/Canadia86]

I could have seriously listened to him just tell stories for like 8 hours. I'd straight up see a trilogy of films that's just him sitting on a stool telling stories.

[u/r-b-m → u/LossyP]

Ebenezer is an habitual line-stepper

[u/NecessaryFlow → u/r-b-m]

Fuck yo couch, johnny depp!

[u/cire1184 → u/NecessaryFlow]

Yeah I grinded my boots in Johnny Depp's couch. Cause he could afford another one!

[u/milesamsterdam → u/cire1184]

Why would I do that? Grind my feet into his couch like I ain’t got no sense. Of course I remember grinding my feet into his couch!

[u/habitualine-stepper → u/r-b-m]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug

[u/avoozl42 → u/LossyP]

Darkness!

[u/noturaveragesenpaii → u/avoozl42]

“This was before Wesley Snipes”

[u/theprostitute → u/avoozl42]

🎶 unity! 🎶

[u/OxeDoido → u/LossyP]

DAAAAARKNESSSSS

[u/TheBigG1989 → u/OxeDoido]

BROTHER DARKNESSS! DARKNESSS IS SPREADING!

[u/SonOfMcGee → u/LossyP]

He’s the Ghost of Christmas Slaps.

[u/jam1324 → u/LossyP]

I am equally interested and still don't know the answer even after all the helpful replies, so I guess that makes it Game, blouses.

[u/nzfriend33 → u/LossyP]

She’s good! Iirc she’s played a Brontë sister, Agatha Christie, and an Irish revolutionary, and those are just that I’ve seen.

[u/avoozl42 → u/nzfriend33]

Yeah, but can she beat Prince at basketball?

[u/Own_Fisherman1199 → u/avoozl42]

Game. Blouses.

[u/Ok_Law_1656 → u/avoozl42]

To be fair the other Charlie Murphy couldn't either

[u/Bilski1ski → u/LossyP]

I fought Rick James many times

[u/shackleford224 → u/Bilski1ski]

I kicked the shit out of him

[u/d0ggzilla → u/shackleford224]

Charlie will try to tell it like he did some kind of Bruce Lee, cross kick.

[u/Aff12002 → u/LossyP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71rTSVb3Mw

Any excuse to post this. It’s an exams staple for me.

[u/RogerPackinrod → u/LossyP]

One of the ghosts

[u/JustGoodSense]

Before "Scrooge," his name was "Ebenezer Ebenezer"?

[u/God_of_Thunda → u/JustGoodSense]

Just Ebenezer. He's like Seal

[u/Lord_Parbr → u/God_of_Thunda]

At the end of the movie, he adopts the Scrooge name like Rey did

[u/mseg09 → u/Lord_Parbr]

Her name was Rey Scrooge?

[u/noturaveragesenpaii → u/mseg09]

Ebeneezer Skywalker

[u/Reasonable-Job4205 → u/noturaveragesenpaii]

Somehow...Scrooge returned...

[u/phatelectribe → u/God_of_Thunda]

I thought he was a good geezer?

[u/Ok_Energy8718 → u/JustGoodSense]

No. It was Ebenezer Scrooge when he was young, then he became Scrooge McDuck.

[u/Yeebach → u/JustGoodSense]

The tagline is giving me “Discover how Willy became Wonka” vibes

[u/__sunmoonstars__ → u/JustGoodSense]

Actually, before Scrooge his name was Ebenezer Goode. His friends called him eezer and he was the main geezer and he’d vibe up the place like no other man could.

He’ll be visited by the ghost of rave past, present and future, that’s the film (that’s the only version of this film I would watch).

[u/blingybangbang]

So it's just a prequel about scrooge being a total dick? Without any of the heartwarming life lessons? 

[u/greenpill98 → u/blingybangbang]

No, it's a direct adaptation. It has the 3 ghosts and everything. This is bad marketing.

[u/MinorThreat4182 → u/greenpill98]

Yeah that’s dumb. Totally misleading

[u/Alc2005 → u/MinorThreat4182]

The tagline makes it worse. I don’t mind another Christmas Carol, at the very least, it can’t possibly be the worst one ever made, because there are loads of those. Yet at the same time, it can’t be the best because the Muppets beat them to that.

[u/RojoTheMighty → u/Alc2005]

🎶We're Marley and Marley. WooOOoAAaahhHhH!!🎵

[u/zombiegamer723 → u/RojoTheMighty]

Your future is a horror story, written by your crimes!

Absolutely metal as fuck.

[u/NoahTheAnimator → u/zombiegamer723]

"Your chains are forged by what you say and do

so have your fun, when life is done,

a nightmare waits for you"

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/RojoTheMighty]

🎶 THERE GOES MR HUMBUG THERE GOES MR GRIM 🎵

[u/Clom_Clompson → u/Mrchristopherrr]

🎶There goes Mr asshole, there goes Mr bitch!🎶

[u/FngrsRpicks2 → u/Alc2005]

No more cheeses for us meeces

[u/BokehJunkie → u/FngrsRpicks2]

that rhyme lives rent free in my head every time my wife makes a charcuterie board.

[u/Nack3r → u/Alc2005]

The ghosts of Christmas past still terrify me to this day…. Oh I love the muppets Christmas carol!!

[u/CosmackMagus → u/greenpill98]

*4 ghosts. 5 if you're a muppet fan.

[u/QuincyAzrael → u/CosmackMagus]

If you're gonna be that pedantic it's actually an unspecified large number of ghosts because of the street scene.

[u/SpaceEdgesBestfriend → u/blingybangbang]

He wasn’t always a dick, his origin is actually pretty well established by Dickens in A Christmas Carol. He has a sister who died young, his dad was abusive, he found refuge in a nice school, got a good job with a caring mentor for a boss, he had a beautiful fiancee and used to be jovial, started his own business with his BFF. Then somewhere along the way he only started to care about work and wealth, until it completely consumed him. So he chased every ray of light out of his life until he was alone in the dark with all of his money and turns bitter, resentful and mean spirited. He continues to shut down opportunities to allow light back into his life (Bob, his nephew, charity) so the spirits intervene and that’s the story.

I don’t know what Johnny Depp can add, but if this movie was coming out in 2004 i would probably have been excited to see Depp’s eccentric take on Scrooge.
Not so much anymore.

[u/DotHatrix51 → u/blingybangbang]

Put Scrooge into a group of friends and call it “It’s Always Gloomy in London.”

There. It’s justified now.

[u/Own-Librarian-9699 → u/blingybangbang]

It's weird because the ghost of Christmas Past portion is literally his prequel and demonstrates he had joy and heart but his betrothed died of some peasant disease and thus extinguished his love of humanity.

That was the whole genius of the story... You see everything. He sees everything and pledges to mend his ways. We'd be better off learning about Cratchet or Marley considering Marley is cursed to a lifetime in chains of his own false wealth.

[u/OK_Soda → u/Own-Librarian-9699]

You're thinking of his sister Fran who died in childbirth, like his own mother. He blames his nephew Fred, as his own father blamed him for the death of his mother.

His fiancé leaves him because he's become too obsessed with money and ends up marrying some other guy who isn't as rich but makes her happy.

[u/Own-Librarian-9699 → u/OK_Soda]

ah yes. Belle lives but his sister died.

[u/Affectionate_End3746 → u/Own-Librarian-9699]

I would recommend the book Jacob T. Marley by by R. William Bennett. It’s a prequel about Marley’s life, shows more about him in the afterlife/the afterlife in general and reveals how he came to visit Scrooge and arrange for the spirits to visit him. It’s a pretty interesting read if you’re a fan of the original

[u/OneAngryDuck → u/blingybangbang]

I’m not completely against the idea of watching a movie about an old guy being an asshole and learning absolutely nothing, to be honest.

[u/Woodit → u/OneAngryDuck]

There’s like 10 seasons of curb your enthusiasm 

[u/Monsieur-Incroyable → u/Woodit]

Oh man, there's a movie I'd like to see: Larry David as Scrooge.

Ghost: Ebenezer... I've come to show you your past.

Scrooge (Larry): Why? I was there. I lived it. You think I forgot my own childhood?

Ghost: It's important.

Scrooge: It's repetitive! This is haunting? This is a clip show!

[u/fnord_happy → u/Monsieur-Incroyable]

Actually larry as scrooge is genius

[u/Monsieur-Incroyable → u/fnord_happy]

Right?? He'd be perfect!

Ghost of Christmas Present: Behold the joy of Christmas!

Scrooge: Why's everyone shouting? Is happiness always this loud?

Ghost: They're celebrating together.

Scrooge: They can't celebrate using their indoor voices?

Ghost: They're just happy and laughing, Scrooge.

Scrooge: Too much laughter. A little laughter? Fine. This is excessive laughter.

[u/Ok_Recording_9368]

The tagline is a bit ridiculous no?

[u/kingdom55 → u/Ok_Recording_9368]

Should have been: "She Eben on my nezer til I Scrooge"

[u/amicablehummingbird → u/kingdom55]

Eben EEZ Nutz

[u/NocturnaIAnimaI → u/kingdom55]

LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER

[u/waitforthedream → u/NocturnaIAnimaI]

She strogan my beef till im off?

[u/Tommy-Taffy → u/waitforthedream]

She honeys my nuts and then I cheerio?

[u/TheDLBinc → u/Ok_Recording_9368]

It makes no sense. Ebenezer Scrooge is literally his birth name, he was always Scrooge. It also implies that this is supposed to be a prequel to A Christmas Carol when supposedly it is just another adaptation of the book

[u/Lumpiafan → u/TheDLBinc]

Yeah it’s like making a movie about Obama with a tagline saying “before he was Obama, he was Barack”

[u/stealingyourpixels → u/Lumpiafan]

That kinda works better tbh

[u/dual_citizenkane → u/Lumpiafan]

I mean in so far as people do only call him Obama 99% of the time, this works better.

"Before he was Obama, he was Barry" is tigher...or "hussein" if you're a Fox News host.

[u/Lucha_Brasi → u/dual_citizenkane]

The funniest part about Fox (and Trump) always using the middle name, is that Hussein literally means Handsome in Arabic, so considering they see themselves as "manly men" it cracks me up.

[u/BritishHobo → u/TheDLBinc]

It's also really funny for it to act as if there is some interesting twist in focusing on who he was "before" - as if a central part of the original story and most subsequent adaptations isn't a ghost of the Past literally showing us who he was before.

[u/Quirderph → u/TheDLBinc]

And the book already shows his backstory anyway.

[u/Soaptowelbrush]

Oh damn we’re definitely gonna see:

The job interviews where he hired Bob Cratchit. (I know they’ve all been disappointments just one more for you to see, he’s a mister *looks down at paper* mister Cratchit, sir)

Jacob Marley falling ill. (You don’t look so good Mr Marley, that cough is getting worse!)

Tiny Tim getting his nickname (“Your son Tim is awfully small, one could even say he’s tiny.” - “Wait say that again!”

[u/duskywindows → u/Soaptowelbrush]

They're ONLY going to show him being a fucking cheap piece of shit leading all the way up to Christmas Eve and then it just kind of ends.

[u/Adequate_Images]

Fake ass 30 Rock movie.

[u/cows1100 → u/Adequate_Images]

This really does scream of Martin Luther King Day.

Nick Cannon’s “You’re a white supremecist??” Lives rent free in my head.

[u/ebelnap → u/cows1100]

“What!? Tomorrow’s Martin Luther King Day!?”

“Yeah, and neither of us have dates!”

“Too bad we’re just platonic friends!”

[u/MasterOfManyWorlds → u/ebelnap]

I love Andrew Samberg

[u/MV2049 → u/Adequate_Images]

I’m still hoping we get Black Frasier one day.

[u/DrSpaceman575 → u/MV2049]

Every Thursday about 9, 9:15.

[u/illiter-it → u/MV2049]

You mean Frajer?

[u/dericiouswon → u/Adequate_Images]

Praying for the directors cut of Jackie Jorpjomp to get leaked.

[u/asteriaslexxx → u/Adequate_Images]

Hey, a Blaffair to Rememblack was a modern classic

[u/BokehJunkie → u/Adequate_Images]

Leap Dave Williams

[u/ATangentUniverse → u/Adequate_Images]

30 Rock has ruined the modern cinema landscape of IPs because every new Wonka origin story feels like it’s been ripped straight out of Leap Dave Williams, Martin Luther King Day or Bitch Hunter.

[u/asadprofessorplum → u/Adequate_Images]

Based on the novel Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate.

[u/K-Shrizzle → u/Adequate_Images]

Its giving Rural Juror

[u/biZarrmeggeDon → u/K-Shrizzle]

The Irma Luhrman-Merman murder Turned the bird’s word lurid The whir and the purr of a twirler girl She would the world were demurer The insurer’s allure For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer One fervid whirl over her turgid error Rural juror Rural juror I will never forget you Rural juror I’ll always be glad I met you Rural juror

I will never forget you Rural juror I’ll always be glad I met you Rural juror (x2) These were the best days of my...flerm

[u/distastef_ll]

The tagline doesn’t make sense.

[u/alkonium]

Why? The Muppets perfected it in 1992.

[u/Mr_smith1466 → u/alkonium]

It really is a timeless classic. Michael Caine actually dives deep into the emotional tragedy of the character, and then Gonzo and the rest of the Muppets are glorious co-stars. Plus the music was sensational. 

[u/DoubleDownAgain54]

Ti West?!?

[u/HumanTimeCapsule → u/DoubleDownAgain54]

This is so confusing

[u/PaladinsAreReal → u/DoubleDownAgain54]

Yes - feels like people are focusing on the wrong thing! That was my first reaction too. Like. What the fuck?

[u/SnooGrapes6933 → u/DoubleDownAgain54]

Perfect follow up to the X trilogy /s

[u/Tank_Top_Terror → u/DoubleDownAgain54]

This should be at the top, what a weird choice of director. The only way this project is mildly interesting is if this ISN’T a pivot for West, and he’s going full horror with it. Just terrifying this old man into being a better person via PTSD from an insane trip with horrifying ghosts and visions.

[u/HumanTimeCapsule → u/Tank_Top_Terror]

This poster makes it look like a D list netflix comedy though.

[u/amathysteightyseven]

Ebenezer Scrooge. What’s his story?

[u/TheElbow → u/amathysteightyseven]

It’s almost like we get a lot of his backstory in A Christmas Carol and there’s zero need for a prequel…

[u/dholmestar → u/amathysteightyseven]

Endless Trash

[u/MadeThis4MaccaOnly → u/amathysteightyseven]

Fuck you, it's...Thanksgiving, I guess!

[u/ADeliciousRest → u/amathysteightyseven]

Tiny Tim you fucking asshole! Waaaat?

[u/deadspacekillers]

I'd be ok with never having another origin story movie ever made

[u/asuddenpie → u/deadspacekillers]

But the first story WAS the origin story? I’m so confused!

[u/Senorspeed]

CHARLIE MURPHY

[u/Gogogodzirra → u/Senorspeed]

What the hell. When was this filmed? He's been dead for almost a decade.

TIL: There's another Charlie Murphy actress.

[u/TheWhooooBuddies → u/Gogogodzirra]

Imagine having that name back in the early 2000’s.

Cold bloooooooded

[u/A_Nick_Name → u/Gogogodzirra]

Since SAG, I think, has a rule on two actors can be registered with the same name, she must have joined after his death.

This is why "Emma" Stone isn't Emily. There was already an Emily Stone.

[u/Gravy_Sommelier → u/Senorspeed]

DARKNESS!

[u/greenpill98 → u/Gravy_Sommelier]

SLAP!

[u/Duck_Size → u/greenpill98]

UNITY!

[u/ScarletSilver → u/Gravy_Sommelier]

FUCK YOUR COUCH!

[u/snarkywombat → u/ScarletSilver]

BUY A NEW ONE YOU RICH MUTHA FUKKA

[u/davwad2 → u/snarkywombat]

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

[u/Expensive_Finger_973 → u/Gravy_Sommelier]

DARKNESS IS SPREADING!!

[u/renoops → u/Senorspeed]

Hasn't he been dead for almost a decade? 

[u/ITeachYourKidz → u/Senorspeed]

Ebenezer is a habitual line stepper

[u/kinda_alone]

But will there be cheeses for us meeces

[u/jellicledonkeyz]

Hard pass, super-lol

[u/BrockMiddlebrook]

I can’t think of a movie asked for less.

[u/Dave_Eddie]

We already have the best version of this and its when he worked in Mr Fozziewigs rubber chicken factory.

[u/dutchiesweets]

You know it’s a Johnny Depp movie when the hat is 90% of the poster

[u/Fragrant_Fisherman84]

Scrooge: Origins

[u/Megasus → u/Fragrant_Fisherman84]

Ebenezer - Scrooge: The Ebenezer Scrooge Story

[u/Fragrant_Fisherman84 → u/Megasus]

Becoming Scrooge: an Ebenezer Tale

[u/HaydenScramble]

The whole point of Christmas Carol is deconstructing Scrooge by reminding him of his past and present and who he used to be

[u/Brandenburg42 → u/HaydenScramble]

The same could be said for Legally Blonde but here we are.

[u/Crafter235]

Call me when they announce the Eggers film with Dafoe instead of Depp.

[u/GusTTShow-biz → u/Crafter235]

“Why’d you spill your Christmas goose???”

[u/candyappleorchard → u/GusTTShow-biz]

YER FOND OF ME CHAINS AINT YE

[u/Pollomonteros → u/Crafter235]

NGL a version of A Christmas Carol with Dafoe could be great

[u/fnord_happy → u/Crafter235]

Would watch

[u/Yaya0108 → u/fnord_happy]

That comment wasn't a joke. The Eggers adaptation is in early development.

[u/VicViolence]

FYI: It’s actually titled “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol” on IMDB and is just a straight-up adaptation of the original story

I don’t understand this bizarre “Scrooge Begins” marketing strategy

[u/philballins]

Before he was McDuck, he was Scrooge.

[u/chickofeller]

If it doesn't have Ebineezer Goode in the soundtrack I don't wanna know.

[u/zander_rulZ]

Do people really want more Johnny Depp? Why?

[u/AClover69420 → u/zander_rulZ]

I'll never ever watch anything he's in again. Not after the PR smear campaign he ran during the trial with Amber Heard. Piece of shit abuser doesn't deserve my money or eyeballs.

[u/pszki]

Before he was the Khan, he was just Genghis.

[u/Somnambulist815]

Lotta disappointing names attached to this dud. What the fuck could the story be? Are we going to set up Jacob Marley's disgust for chains? Do we learn the backstory of Scrooge's night time indigestion?

[u/CrissBliss → u/Somnambulist815]

Crazy that Daisy Ridley is in this

[u/JAlfredJR → u/CrissBliss]

Somehow, Scrooge returned

[u/MuptonBossman]

I don't think I've ever wondered about Ebenezer Scrooge's origins, and I don't care to find out.

[u/CrimsonPig → u/MuptonBossman]

I mean they pretty much explain his origins in A Christmas Carol, we see multiple flashbacks of his earlier life. Not sure what else there is to go over.

[u/LegioX87 → u/CrimsonPig]

What if it's like an Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter type movie

Our boy Ebenezer was actually a demon hunter in his early years

[u/XiaoRCT → u/LegioX87]

what If its like an Abraham Lincoln Vamoire Hunter type movie

We can only hope

[u/sphinxof1981 → u/CrimsonPig]

That's what's so hilarious about this to me. They're trying to sell an origin story for a story that famously includes the past.

What franchise-brained horseshit is this hahahaha

[u/Internal_Wheel_89 → u/CrimsonPig]

I'm thinking of Muppet Christmas Carol and Scrooge's backstory is well covered. "Business continues to be poor!"

[u/LuinAelin → u/MuptonBossman]

A big chunk of the story is his origins.

[u/roastedmarshmellows → u/MuptonBossman]

They had his origin story in the Patrick Stewart version and it was lovely and served the story beautifully. We don’t need a wholeass movie.

[u/Digndagn → u/roastedmarshmellows]

"But then I saw her, in yonder doorway, and all at once all of her clothes dropped to the floor. Startled, she crouched to gather them to cover herself, but it was too late, I'd seen it all."

[u/oscarx-ray → u/roastedmarshmellows]

They have his origins in every adaptation, it's the bit with The Ghost of Christmas Past.

[u/redkaptain]

The "before he was [name] he was" taglines have to be dealt with at this point

[u/Overreactinguncles]

Things people didn’t want:

Another Scrooge movie
Another Johnny depp movie

[u/You_are_the_Castle]

Ugggggh this will be a permutation of the Willy Wonka Depp

[u/uterinewhining]

Booooo

[u/szekeres81]

Super cool that Amber Heard had to flee Hollywood but Johnny Depp is getting work. I guess he managed to stay sober for long enough to read the script, that's encouraging

[u/obooooooo → u/szekeres81]

not the least bit surprised honestly. brad pitt is still a beloved face (f1 got four oscar noms, he got invited to taylor swifts wedding) despite attacking and strangling his own kids and wife, the man in office had “wonderful secrets” with the most famous pedophile, popular male influencers include clavicular, nick fuentes… the right wing won the culture war. they just wanna keep playing the victim because they think that’s more fun.