{"id":2116335,"date":"2025-10-26T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2116335"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:20:17","slug":"johnny-depp-set-to-return-as-scrooge-in-christmas-carol-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/johnny-depp-set-to-return-as-scrooge-in-christmas-carol-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp set to return as Scrooge in \u2018Christmas Carol\u2019 remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny Depp appears set to return to the mainstream as Ebenezer Scrooge<\/a> in Paramount Pictures\u2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens\u2019 \u201cA Christmas Carol,\u201d helmed by horror movie director Ti West.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d star \u2014 whose career suffered for years in the wake of abuse allegations leveled by ex-wife Amber Heard<\/a> \u2014 is said to be in final talks to star in \u201cEbenezer: A Christmas Carol,\u201d<\/a> according to Variety and Nexus Point News.<\/p>\n

Andrea Riseborough, similarly no stranger to controversy<\/a> albeit of lighter fare, is also set to star.<\/p>\n

While West is primarily known for making horror films, including the recent \u201cX\u201d trilogy<\/a>, it\u2019s not yet clear whether his version of \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d will flirt with the gory genre.<\/p>\n

The movie, which Paramount hopes to release next November, will mark Depp\u2019s first role from a major studio since 2018\u2019s \u201cFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has slowly but surely been returning to the cinematic forefront after Heard, now 39, seemingly accused him of domestic abuse in an op-ed for The Washington Post<\/a>, just over a month after the release of that film.<\/p>\n

The allegations, after which Depp was fired from both the \u201cFantastic Beasts\u201d and \u201cPirates\u201d franchises,<\/a> resulted in the exes facing off in a 2022 joint defamation trial<\/a> that captivated the internet and led both performers to becoming persona non grata.<\/p>\n

Riseborough, for her part, may best be known now for her eyebrow-raising best actress nomination at the 2023 Academy Awards<\/a>. Her consideration campaign for \u201cTo Leslie\u201d was accused of violating Academy rules by somehow enlisting a slew of celebrities to publicly sing her praises and increase her chances of a nomination.<\/p>\n

The nod spurred a probe, which found \u201ctactics that caused concern,\u201d though the nomination was not rescinded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnny Depp appears set to return to the mainstream as Ebenezer Scrooge in Paramount Pictures\u2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens\u2019 \u201cA Christmas Carol,\u201d helmed by horror movie director Ti West. The 62-year-old \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d star \u2014 whose career suffered for years in the wake of abuse allegations leveled by ex-wife Amber Heard \u2014 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[309287,401283,400096,309290,319843],"class_list":["post-2116335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-amber-heard","tag-christmas-carol","tag-ebenezer-scrooge","tag-johnny-depp","tag-paramount-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Johnny-Depp-set-to-return-as-Scrooge-in-\u2018Christmas-Carol.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116337,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116335\/revisions\/2116337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}