Johnny Depp’s Scrooge Gets Even Creepier as Christmas Comes Calling
Johnny Depp takes on Ebenezer Scrooge as Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint and more enter a darker new version of Dickens’ classic Xmas ghost story.
Directed by Ti West, Ebenezer arrives in theaters on November 13, 2026, with Paramount Pictures putting a gothic spin on A Christmas Carol while keeping Scrooge’s supernatural reckoning front and center.
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Johnny Depp goes full Scrooge while Ti West leans into the shadows, spirits and Victorian gloom of Dickens’ Christmas classic.
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Leaning into the eerie side of Scrooge’s supernatural reckoning, the second official trailer pushes the foggy Victorian streets, rattling chains and spectral visitors even harder. Depp disappears beneath heavy age makeup to deliver one very committed “Humbug.”
The supporting cast is just as stacked. Rupert Grint plays Bob Cratchit, Sam Claflin takes on Fred, Andrea Riseborough appears as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Tramell Tillman plays the Ghost of Christmas Present and Ian McKellen steps in as Jacob Marley. Daisy Ridley, Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Charlie Murphy also round out the film’s Dickensian world.
West is working from a screenplay by Nathaniel Halpern, with the film returning to Dickens’ familiar bones: a miserly Scrooge forced to confront his past, present and future before Christmas morning. The difference here is the mood. This version looks less cozy fireside adaptation and more haunted holiday tale — which, frankly, is exactly where a story full of dead business partners and midnight spirits has always belonged.
Johnny Depp and Ian McKellen in Ebenezer Official Trailer 2
Watch the second official trailer for Ti West’s Ebenezer, starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge and Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley.
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Source: Paramount Pictures / Ebenezer official materials.
