Full Ebenezer trailer looks a whole lot like the other Christmas Carols
The film, which will supposedly teach us something we didn't already know about Scrooge, opens next month.
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With Ebenezer, the big Johnny Depp comeback vehicle, we’ve been promised a new take on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. He’ll have some kind of gray area that was apparently missing before. Even in today’s new trailer, we’re told to “think again” if we think we know his story. But the actual footage we see in the trailer looks a whole lot like the story we’ve actually seen many times before. Sure, this is a Ti West joint so there are some extra creepy, ghoulish prosthetics, but we more or less see the entire narrative arc of the Dickens classic play out in the two or so minutes of the trailer. Maybe the story we’ve been told is actually just the story.