With the Fall movie season upon us, Paramount Pictures has shared a brand new trailer for their upcoming holiday comedy Ebenezer, an upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that will mark leading man Johnny Depp's long-awaited return to the big screen.
While the story is well-known, the new film is expected to simultaneously retell the classic tale while adding some additional backstory for the titular Ebenezer Scrooge. What that means exactly remains to be seen, but it looks like we'll be getting more into his family life and how he ultimately became the ultimate Christmas grinch.
Ebenezer will be Depp's first lead role in six years and his first big-budget theatrical release since 2018's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, so there will certainly be a lot of eyes on the new project as Hollywood higher-ups look to determine whether the three-time Oscar-nominated actor can still be a major box office draw.
Over the past few years, Depp has appeared in The Professor, City of Lies, Waiting for the Barbarians, Minamata, and Jeanne du Barry—modestly budgeted projects that found varying degrees of success. He also recently wrapped Marc Webb's Day Drinker, which revealed its first look last week. The upcoming supernatural revenge thriller co-stars Madelyn Cline and Penélope Cruz, and is scheduled to open in theaters March 2027.
In addition to Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Alice in Wonderland), the cast features Rupert Grint (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Knock at the Cabin), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie; Birdman), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; Me Before You), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Murder on the Orient Express), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; House of the Dragon), Ellie Bamber (Nocturnal Animals; Red, White & Royal Blue), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Killing Eve; The Inbetweeners Movie), Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders; Halo), with Tramell Tillman (Severance; Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning) and Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Avengers: Doomsday).
Ti West (Pearl; X) directed the film, with a screenplay from Nathaniel Halpern (Tales from the Loop; Legion).
Ebenezer hits theaters on November 13!
Watch the new trailer below:
This November, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. The name you know, the story you don’t. From Ti West, EBENEZER also stars Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Daisy Ridley, Arthur Conti, Ellie Bamber, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Charlie Murphy, with Tramell Tillman and Ian McKellen.