It looks like director Robert Eggers isn’t done with Christmas horror movies.
After the success of Nosferatu, Eggers is set to work on another snow-covered Christmas story with an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. According to Deadline, Eggers is developing the movie with Warner Bros., and he has longtime collaborator Willem Dafoe in mind for the part of Ebenezer Scrooge.
While A Christmas Carol is known as a kid-friendly tale, thanks in part to the popularity of the Muppet version, it can be considered a holiday horror story, what with Scrooge being haunted by several ghosts—one of which is the grotesque corpse of his old partner Jacob Marley.
Carol is just one of many incoming projects under Eggers’ belt. He also has a Werwulf movie with Focus Features, and it wasn’t too long before it was announced that he was working on a follow-up of Jim Henson’s cult classic Labyrinth.
Admittedly, Nosferatu wasn’t my favorite Eggers film, but the movie was a success when it came out, and a lot of fans loved his new twist on the classic Dracula tale. Personally, Lily-Rose Depp was the big standout in the film for me. She just embodied that possessed maiden so well. I may have wanted more out of Bill Skarsgard as Nosferatu, but he definitely had the aura for it.
Who knows, maybe Carol is going to be Eggers’ prep for the Labyrinth film. It would be fantastic if he found a way to put Muppets in it.
No release date has been announced for Eggers’ A Christmas Carol, but maybe it would be ready by Christmas 2026.
