Like mother, like daughter!
23.11.2022 - 18:37 / thewrap.com
What was the initial nugget of an idea that inspired this movie?Well, John Morris, my writing and producing partner and I, we’ve always wanted to do a musical. We were having a conversation while we were working on another script, and we were just talking story, and we ended up talking about “A Christmas Carol” and about how an argument could be made that the ghosts are the protagonists of “A Christmas Carol” because they’re the ones with a mission and a job to do.
That led to a pretty funny conversation about well, imagine the amount of prep and work that must go into structuring this haunt. Then we got excited, we thought, has anybody ever done “A Christmas Carol” from the perspective of the ghosts?We started talking about who our Scrooge be, and we were just kind of talking about the state of the world right now, and we liked the idea of what if the Ghost of Christmas Present is our protagonist? And the Scrooge that he picks is a guy who’s almost like a TV news pundit, like a guy who just has an answer for everything, and it’s always just more about winning the argument than the contents.
So when we had that idea, then we called Will Ferrell because we just had a feeling that Will would spark to that idea, and we really loved the idea of him playing the Ghost Christmas Present. He sparked to the idea right away, and then it wasn’t until later, where we had fleshed things out a bit more and we had a better sense of who we wanted Clint to be, and we knew that we didn’t want Clint to be a jerk.
We didn’t want him to be a guy who’s just mean to people and crass and difficult. We wanted him to be kind of slick and cool and charismatic.
Like mother, like daughter!
Steve Martin and Martin Short have returned to Saturday Night Live!
Charles Dickens might be rolling in his grave tonight as Saturday Night Live reimagines his A Christmas Carol as a bloody R-rated sketch starring Steve Martin and Martin Short.
EXCLUSIVE: It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas.
Coca-Cola, Imagine Entertainment and Amazon have partnered in Christmas Always Finds Its Way, a trilogy of short films that will launch today on Amazon Prime and promoted heavily through the holiday season.
Joining forces. Prince William and Prince Harry sent a joint letter to the annual Henry Van Straubenzee Christmas Carol Concert.
A Christmas dinner - for many - cannot be beaten when it comes to ultimate meals.
EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Sumner will star opposite Elizabeth Banks in A Mistake — the medical drama from writer-director Christine Jeffs (Sunshine Cleaning) that was first announced during the 2022 Cannes Market.
West Lothian Crematorium is inviting the local community to visit on Wednesday, December 7, to take part in its annual Christmas Carol and Memorial Service.
Specials of Call the Midwife, EastEnders, Bad Education, Ghosts, Malory Towers, Motherland, Inside No 9, Detectorists and The Cleaner will also be left under the TV tree. The TV adaption of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels will conclude, while another part of JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike series - called Strike: Troubled Blood - will be broadcast.
Ready for round five? Pregnant Blake Lively teased husband Ryan Reynolds over his dorky dance moves in a flirty comment.
White Noise and Glass Onion are 2022's contenders. But the most exciting thing about to hit ? Why, the continued adventures of , of course. Without further ado, here's what's coming to Netflix in December 2022:Dead End (Netflix Series)JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Season 1 Episodes 25-38 (Netflix Anime)The Masked Scammer (Netflix Documentary)Qala (Netflix Film)Troll (Netflix Film)21 Jump StreetBasketball Wives, Seasons 1-2Coach CarterForged in Fire: Knife or Death, Season 1Hachi: A Dog's TaleThe Happytime MurdersLEGO Friends: Holiday SpecialLove Island USA, Season 3Meekah, Season 1My GirlPeppermintTroyBig Brother, Seasons 10 and 14Firefly Lane, Season 2, Part 1 (Netflix Series)Hot Skull (Netflix Series)Lady Chatterley's Lover (Netflix Film)My Unorthodox Life, Season 2 (Netflix Series)Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (Netflix Film)Sr.
Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Nikyatu Jusu’s unsettling “Nanny” is a supernatural thriller that weaves together strands of domestic drama and West African folklore.
There are more than the usual number of miracles to be observed with the latest version of A Christmas Carol to hit Broadway. The usual suspects are here, all the ghosts and spirits and flights over ye olde town and all the witnessing of things past, present and future. And there’s the miracle of one man – the great Jefferson Mays – breathing life into more than 50 characters and having us believe every single shift. And there’s the perhaps more – if only slightly more – quotidian miracle of a creative team – directors of lighting and sound and costumes and projections – at the tops of their games coming together to create gobsmacking theater magic, a blessing director Michael Arden’s Carol has in great bounty.