Yup the headline is right my young friends. Jim Carrey (Bruce Almight, Ace Ventura, The Mask) has agreed to play the part of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens childrens book adaptation, A Christmas Carol.
Carrey will also be playing the roles of the 3 ghosts that haunt Scrooge. So the 3 roles that are set up for Carrey in A Christmas Carol are as follow: Ebenezer Scrooge, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. What else is there? Tiny Tim? Will he be playing that as well?
Robert Zemeckis (Ghostship, House of Wax, Matchstick Men) is going to be directing the script which he wrote. Aas well as writing the script, directing the movie Zemeckis will be producing it as well. Although not alone, he will have the help of Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey.
The movie is set to be shot in complete computer graphics much like the Polar Express was shot in for Tom Hanks. Only thing is, this is Jim Carrey we are talking about? He doesn’t need any CGI to make it look better, I guess we will find out when the film comes.
Carrey is chockerblocked with acting engagements. His current priority is Ripley’s Believe It or Not! which chronicles the story of Robert Ripley’s quest for the inhuman people in society. Paramount are really trying to fit Tim Burton in around the post-production of Sweeney Todd.
After that Carrey has the role of a gay prison escapee in the movie I Love You Phillip Morris. He has also signed on to take on the rold of a nursemaid of his sick wife and her family in Me Time. And last but certainly not least Sober Buddies
