Jim Carrey is Scrooge in 3-D ‘Carol’
He’s already played the Grinch, and now Jim Carrey is out to ruin Christmas all over again, this time playing Ebenezer Scrooge.
Walt Disney Pictures announced Friday that Carrey will play the lead role in the computer-animated, 3-D retelling of “A Christmas Carol,” to be directed by Robert Zemeckis. And because Carrey is Carrey, he’ll play Scrooge at different ages as well as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future that haunt Ebenezer and make him rethink his misguided ways.
Zemeckis will direct the picture for Disney using the performance-capture animation he used in “The Polar Express” and is using in the upcoming Angelina Jolie film “Beowulf.” (His version of “A Christmas Carol” will combine live action and computer graphics.) No release date has yet been announced.
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