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It’s the ghost from Hollywood’s Christmas past as Johnny Depp has returned in his biggest movie project yet since being ostracized during a contentious and ugly defamation lawsuit with ex-wife Amber Heard.
Paramount Pictures, under the new leadership of David Ellison, is in final negotiations to pick up a new take on Charles Dickens’ oft-adapted A Christmas Carol.
Ti West, the horror filmmaker behind the X, Pearl and MaXXXine movies, is attached to direct the feature, which is titled Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol. Paramount is ready to set a Nov. 13, 2026 release date.
Andrea Riseborough is also attached to star in the project that has a script by Nathaniel Halpern. Emma Watts, who briefly ran Paramount’s film division, is producing.
