# Johnny Depp’s Scrooge faces Christmas spirits in Ti West’s adaptation of Dickens’ classic

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ebenezer-review-johnny-depps-scrooge-tries-to-exorcise-ghosts-of-business-past/
- Published: 2026-11-12T09:00:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T09:17:27+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/nov/12/ebenezer-review-johnny-depp-scrooge-dickens
- Topics: Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Paranormal, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- Johnny Depp plays Scrooge in a mostly faithful new adaptation.
- The film adds several twists to Dickens’s familiar story.
- Depp’s performance is strongest before Scrooge’s redemption.

## Summary

Ti West’s new adaptation of *A Christmas Carol*, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge, follows the familiar story of the miser confronted by three Christmas ghosts and offered a chance at redemption. The film is a largely faithful, serviceable version with a few changes, and Depp is most convincing as the bad-tempered Scrooge before his transformation.

The film opens with Jacob Marley, played by Ian McKellen, still alive and trading grumpy remarks with Scrooge. Other changes include a harsher fate for Fezziwig and Belle being a novelist; Rupert Grint plays Bob Cratchit, while Andrea Riseborough, Tramell Tillman and Robert Strange play the ghosts. *Ebenezer* is due in Australia on 12 November and in the UK and US on 13 November.

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