Disney is planning a new movie melodious adaptation of Charles Dickens ' classic novel , A Christmas Carol , from director Bill Condon . Condon antecedently directed the 2017 unrecorded actionBeauty and the Beast , which was a massive box seat post winner . Other course credit of his let in the last twoTwilightfilms andDreamgirls . On November 15 , his latest filmThe Good Liar , starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen ,   will polish off dramaturgy .

A ChristmasCarolis a popular choice for Hollywood adaptations , with Disney ’s new project being one of many presently in ontogeny .   There ’s a miniseries planned for FX with Guy Pearce , anda musical set for Apple with Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell . Disney itself has already tackledA Christmas Carolseveral times , the most late being the gesture - capture feature directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey in 2009 .   The much dear Christmas tale follows the grumpy miser Ebenezer Scrooge as he learns the real substance of Christmas and to let compassion and kindness into his heart with the help of three spirits .

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EWreports that Condon will also be the credited film writer , and has already written the playscript . to boot , this interpretation will be a musical , andStephen Schwartz , the man creditworthy for the hit Broadway musicalWicked ’s score , will write the songs . This new adaptation is said to follow Jacob Marley as react to Scrooge , and is tentatively titledMarley . In the novel , Marley is Scrooge ’s late business pardner who appears as a ghost to warn Scrooge of what ’s to come up . It ’s unclear whether Disney ’s young film will take place during the issue ofA Christmas Carolor before .

No acquittance window has been set , but it ’s likely thatMarleywill not be seen for a few long time . There have not been any casting annunciation either . This project fits among Disney ’s current strategy to give up remaking of darling properties . It even pit last year’sThe Nutcracker and the Four Realmsin that it ’s a fresh take on a popular Christmas floor . The Nutcrackerwas a critical and financial miss , and Disney undoubtedly hopesMarley ’s prospects will be jollier .

On one bridge player , it can be irritating to see Disney , the most successful studioin Hollywood decently now , prefer to refashion something as opposed to create something new . That ’s one of the chief criticisms leveled atDisney ’s alive - action trend , and this news is n’t bound to alter that . On the other , A Christmas Carolis one of the most well - know narrative of all metre , andwill probably always be remadeas long as studio are making moving-picture show . At the very least , Disney look to be offering a dissimilar vantage point on the account , which would give it a demand update . This reading ofA Christmas Carolcould become a classic for a whole new genesis , or it could convey nothing new to the tarradiddle . Hopefully it ’ll be the former instead of the latter .

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