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First Look: Jim Carrey as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol

Posted on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

Update: Filmz.ru just posted a different higher res photo of Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge.

MarketSaw has a photo of a promotional poster for Robert Zemeckis‘ A Christmas Carol, which features a first look at Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge. I took the image into photoshop and realigned the angle for better presentation.

The film is being produced by Disney, and like Zemeckis last couple films, was shot completely using performance capture, and will be distributed in 3D. Carrey also plays the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.

I got a chance to see some of the early concept art and models for this film back in September at a Disney industry event, and I was impressed by the Victorian-era style. No footage was available but they did have renderings of all the actors in the various different classic charters. Colin Firth plays Fred and Gary Oldman plays Bob Cratchit, Marley and Tiny Tim.

A Christmas Carol is set to hit theaters on November 6th 2009.

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  • I love what Zemeckis is continuing to do. This will be amazing as the Tech continues to advance.
  • Carey will undoubtedly do Scrooge justice, but I hope that this film looks better than Beowulf. Zemeckis seems to be stuck in this CG rut, and with all the advances in technology, one would think that the animation would improve as well.
  • Swesley
    wow... this... might actually be good.
  • I was almost interested, right up until I saw "IN-3D" on the poster. I'd rather see Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim.
  • igroveman
    I felt the same till I saw Zemeckis 3-D Beowulf. It was one of the most amazing visual experiences I've ever had. It only intensified the drama and the beauty.
  • Do you really need to see actual footage to know what this will be like? See Jim in every movie he has been in except ESoTSM.

    Wasn't his character in A Series of Unfortunate Events exactly as pictured above? His gimmick is tired. Unless he Can pull off another Truman Show, or ESoTSM, count me out.
  • Arthur
    Great ! Jim Carrey gets to ruin yet another holiday classic!
  • Right? The Grinch was horrible. I can't believe it made so much money.
  • looks interesting
  • I agree, it just seems like every Jim Carrey movie is the same. Sure he throws in a curveball in once in awhile, but I'm well past the point where enough is enough. I mean, it just gets tiring.
  • I am completely with you. The more I read above, the more and more I started feeling bile rise in my throat. Zemeckis needs to back off with the motion capture 3D, and Carrey needs to get lost for a few years and come back with something that won't make me cringe. Everything about this idea seems bad to me.
  • theanner
    I'm more interested in how Gary Oldman is going to play Tiny Tim.
  • This will be as good as the Grinch. Jim really needs to try other stuff, i think he is only in it for the mone these days.
  • Yeah he should just act in movies for free...
  • Water
    Zemeckis needs to stop, wait for James Cameron to revolutionize things with "Avatar" and THEN start making these kindsa movies. But I guess Zemeckis doesn't mind being stuck in the Uncanny Valley.
  • Wait is this live action or motion capture like Polar Express?
  • ok i'm dumb. I need to read more carefully.
  • Nina
    great film
  • Yeah maybe Zemeckis likes his characters looking like zombies.

    I doubt it but anyway. Maybe he just doesnt want to wait till Avatar.
  • cwhat
    I wasn't interested...but now I am.
  • Buster Dog
    Peter's on a photoshopping whirlwind here.
  • I agree, I think it's getting almost to the point of being silly that he's continually trying to shove this technology in the faces of audiences.
    Yes, the technology is impressive, but to be honest I thought Polar Express and Beowulf were very poor films, from an plot/story/entertainment standpoint, I couldn't watch them without Zemeckis screaming in my face "Look! Look! It's 3D! Look at the camera swerve and duck through space, look at the skin on these characters, how real does this hair seem? Look!"

    He used to be a great filmmaker who was always pushing technology to tell great stories, but I feel as though he's been overcome with "Lucas Syndrome" and is relying too heavily on the tech.

    I hope this movie changes my opinion, but I don't have high hopes.
  • wait revolutionize what, that dude hasn't done nothing until he shows actual footage of his little avatar project then we'll see but till then i rather watch these so-called 'zombie' zemeckis cg movies. i just wonder who's a better storyteller?
  • Alan
    He looks like he did as Count Olaf.
  • Nina
    I like it, I saw many info. on ***seekingsugarmomma. c om***. Very funny site. Like it so much!!!
  • Did Bobby Z perfect the art of actually making realistic non-zombie mo-cap people, or, did he perfect making realistic non-zombie incredibly deformed senior citizens?
  • patty
    I like it, I saw many info. on ***seekingsugarmomma. c om***. Very funny site. Like it so much!!!
  • Jim Carrey was in Truman show... But that was a good movie though...
  • I think this might work, if Carrey can give a subletly to Scrooge and make us by the end to begin to like him. And Gary Oldman!! Sold!! And I love the Disney version of Carol. Scrooge Mcduck, keep bathing in your money man.
  • I'm glad to see this is starting to finally shape up. I can't wait for this.
  • Yay! Gary Oldman!!!!!
  • Rob
    I just have one complaint: why Gary Oldman as Tiny Tim? Wouldn`t it be better, more convincing, to have a child actor play the part? Thats just my opinion, of course.
  • Disney is coming out with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"
  • Cecilia you have a new friend request.
  • Ali
    I can't wait I saw the train in Sacramento and my children and I had a really good time
  • Sue
    What is this film rated???
  • Richard Keoghoe
    Jim Carrie has done a master class in emulating Alistair Sim from the early 1950s version. Admittedly, he did it very well. The Victorian scenery and flying sequences were magnificent and the animated characterisation unbelievably good, even to the point of the flicker of an eye in a moment of doubt. Presumably, the real actors modelled the characterisation. I wasn't too sure about the sequence with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Very impressively done but it was more of an animator's showcase testing the limits of the computer technology but did little to perpetuate the story.
    All in all, an excellent film with the right mixture of comedy, pathos, musical delight and even horror.
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