Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol? Yeah, that might work. He's already starred as one Christmas-hating icon - the Grinch - so he's got good "bah humbug" pedigree.
Unfortunately, though, we won't see any of Carrey's rubber-faced magic because the film's a Walt Disney 3D animation, also starring the voices of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Michael J Fox.
It's directed by Robert Zemeckis, who has previous mega-hits such as Forrest Gump, Back to the Future and The Polar Express to his name. But I can't help imagining how more enjoyably ghoulish and weird it would be as a dark stop-motion nightmare in the twisted hands of Tim Burton.
Look at the brand new trailer, for example. Do the ghosts really look scary? Not very. More like Scooby Doo meets Charles Dickens. The film opens in the UK on 6 November.
A Christmas Carol movie trailer - watch online
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October 31 13:54
chris dawson
Check out Wilfred Bramble's character 'Albert Steptoe' (Steptoe and Son) - I defy you to see this Scrooge again in the same light!