{"id":788834,"date":"2026-10-01T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788834\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:54:11","slug":"ebenezer-trailer-johnny-depp-aged-as-scrooge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788834\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ebenezer&#8217; Trailer: Johnny Depp Aged as Scrooge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/johnny-depp\/\" id=\"auto-tag_johnny-depp_1\" data-tag=\"johnny-depp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Depp<\/a>, making his Hollywood comeback as Ebenezer Scrooge, is both haughty and haunted in the official trailer for Ebenezer, the supernatural revenge thriller from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount_1\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a> set for a Nov. 13 release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe new spooky take on Charles Dickens\u2019 oft-adapted A Christmas Carol tale from director Ti West has Depp \u2014 returning to mainstream Hollywood after a heated divorce trial with Amber Heard \u2014 looking unrecognizable as he brusquely turns away pleas for charity, before being utterly terrified by the haunting of three spirits who pull him into their frightening world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re welcome to take your chances out there,\u201d one of the spirits advises, as zombie-like creatures loom up ahead at one point in the horror-tinged trailer (below). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019d rather not,\u201d a trembling Scrooge insists, with just a bit of that Jack Sparrow swagger as the three spirits persist in making him change his wicked ways.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Ebenezer cast includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/andrea-riseborough\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Riseborough<\/a> as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Tramell Tillman as the Ghost of Christmas Present, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ian-mckellen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian McKellen<\/a> as business partner Jacob Marley and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/rupert-grint\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rupert Grint<\/a> as Bob Cratchit. Daisy Ridley, Sam Claflin, Charlie Murphy, Arthur Conti and Ellie Bamber round out the ensemble. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWest helms the film from a script by Nathaniel Halpern that adapts Charles Dickens\u2019 classic 1843 novella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Paramount tentpole is Depp\u2019s first mainstream Hollywood gig since 2018\u2019s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald from Warner Bros. The actor more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/johnny-depp-day-drinker-trailer-penelope-cruz-1236709300\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/johnny-depp-day-drinker-trailer-penelope-cruz-1236709300\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shifted his attention <\/a>to international movies and appeared in the period piece Jeanne du Barry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp, making his Hollywood comeback as Ebenezer Scrooge, is both haughty and haunted in the official trailer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94630,96,16318,2839,3770,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-andrea-riseborough","tag-entertainment","tag-johnny-depp","tag-movies","tag-paramount","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}