I don’t mind, happy to wait. If indeed the suggestions are correct and Willem Dafoe will play Scrooge, I really can’t think of a better casting. That guy has been killing it in role after role.

As part of the new project, Eggers is currently eyeing the 69-year-old Dafoe for Dickens' infamously cantankerous protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge, a role previously played by everyone from George C ...

Robert Eggers to Tap Willem Dafoe to Play Scrooge Filmmaker Robert Eggers is aspiring to write and direct a new version of A Christmas Carol which the director hopes will feature Willem Dafoe ...

Eggers will also serve as producer, with Chris and Elenor Columbus attached to produce via Maiden Voyage. A Christmas Carol follows old miser Scrooge on Christmas Eve, as he's visited by his late ...

As reported earlier this year, Dafoe was also previously rumored to be the frontrunner to play Ebenezer Scrooge in Eggers' upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Werwulf and A ...

There’s a ghost of Christmas future for Robert Eggers and Willem Dafoe. The pair are eyeing a reunion on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at Warner Bros.