Your browser does not support iframes. To visit the page follow this link Jim Carrey, who brought Dr Seuss's to life on the big screen, will soon portray another holiday curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, as well as the three Christmas ghosts in a remake of , the Walt Disney Co said today. Robert Zemeckis will direct from his own script, based on the Charles Dickens classic novel, a Disney spokeswoman said.
The movie will blend live action with 3-D digital animation and a computer-graphics style called "performance capture", which Zemeckis used in his 2004 holiday adventure The Polar Express and his upcoming film Beowulf, the spokeswoman said. Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director of Tom Hanks' 1994 hit drama , wrote his Christmas Carol screenplay specifically for Carrey, who will portray the miserly Scrooge through various periods of his life. Carrey also will play the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future who visit Scrooge.
The movie will be produced through Zemeckis' production company, ImageMovers Digital, and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. No release date has been set. Several internet sites have reported that Bob Hoskins, who starred in Zemeckis' 1988 live-action/animated comedy , also has been cast in , but Disney said no such deal is in place.
Seven years ago Carrey, 45, starred as the title character in the Ron Howard-directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas , based on the popular Dr Seuss story. Grinch was a huge box office hit but in recent years Carrey has suffered through a string of flops such as Fun with Dick and Jane and Dickens' classic tale of a bitter old merchant given a Christmas Eve chance at redemption has been adapted many times for TV and the movies, including two Hollywood versions - 1938's starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge and 1951's , with Alastair Sim in the title role.
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