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Johnny Depp playing Johnny Depp in Johnny Depp Movie XII: Same Guy Again
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The wine vampire should retreat back to his cellar, yes
Someone was trying to tell me he's a great character actor and I had to bite my tongue very, very hard
As long as the character is Johnny Depp wearing his Johnny Depp Character Wig, he's great at it.
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For ages I've been meaning to watch Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995), in which Johnny Depp plays the main character. It's pretty… interesting…? how Dead Man is considered to be very good in its representation of Indigenous people, especially for a film not directed by an Indigenous person^[I only first became aware of Dead Man because clips of it are used in the music video for The Halluci Nation's "Electric Pow Wow Drum", which also samples audio from the film.]; and then not even twenty years later, Johnny Depp went on to don redface as Tonto in Disney's The Lone Ranger (2013), which was, uhh, not as good representation?
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she's ebbin' on my neezer till i scrooge
Predictions because this kind of movie has been fucking done to death: Johnny Deppy will have a bad relationship with his father who is a business tycoon, Bob Cratchett will be his childhood friend, he will fall in love, then something bad will happen to him that makes him give up whatever whimsical bullshit dreams he had and become an evil industrialist. After doing something particularly evil love interest will say "it's like I dont know you anymore!" and leave. Cratchett sticks around but yearns for the old scrooge who rescued him from an orphanage as a child or whatever.
We'll have a scene where he uses "Bah Humbug" for the first time because he sees a sheep, a hummingbird, and a fly at the same time
When it comes to screenwriting, I am Cassandra
This is scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard that I can only feel confused.
Did The Christmas Carol really need a prequel? Are they trying to start a multiverse franchise a la Marvel, but with royalty free books?
What's next, Huckleberry Finn 2?
Huck Finn 2 - Huck Harder
Huck Finn 3 - Go Huck Yourself
Huck 4 - in Space
In addition to the others mentioned there's
James, Percival Everett's version from the perspective of Jim
Huck Out West, by Robert Coover, a revisionist take where Tom Sawyer sells Jim to buy a pair of boots, Becky Thatcher ends up in a brothel, and Huck has some solo adventures before meeting up with Tom again, who's now a shady lawyer running for Congress.
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Rewriting Twain, John Seelye delivered a raucous R-rated adaptation in The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970), notably discarding Twain’s comical ending for a more tragic conclusion depicting a manacled Jim drowning in a last-ditch swim for freedom. Going in a new direction, Greg Matthews took up Twain’s original cue for a westward turn in The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1983). Matthews’s version received mixed reviews — among them this jewel: “The result is sometimes cute, but more typically unreadable […] no Twain wit or wisdom […] like Early American–style furniture made of plastic laminate.” Two more indirect adaptations/extensions have come in the form of Nancy Rawles’s My Jim (2005), a moving story narrated by Jim’s enslaved wife Sadie, and Jon Clinch’s Finn: A Novel (2007), which takes on the unenviable task of telling the story of Huck’s father, Pap. Whatever the outcomes of critical debates or successes of the respective novels, imagining Huck’s adventures after his reluctant coming of age and his decision to risk hell in stealing Jim out of slavery has been both fruitful and fraught-filled.
Rewriting Twain, John Seelye delivered a raucous R-rated adaptation in The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970), notably discarding Twain’s comical ending for a more tragic conclusion depicting a manacled Jim drowning in a last-ditch swim for freedom.
The original ending of Huck Finn is one of the best endings of all time, with an emancipatory and rebellious message of anti-racist solidarity. Huck is being pressured to give up Jim or burn in hell for all eternity and go to jail for aiding in the escape of a fugitive slave. Huck's response is "Alright I'll go to hell". It's perfection, and these fucking grimdarkslop author thought they would 'improve' it by making it yet another tragic black-death and taking away one of the most inspiring endings in fiction to make it generic sad gritty bullshit
Right? It's such a perfect, definitive line. I liked James and Huck Out West for the most part but some of these sound not only unnecessary but absolutely misguided.
let's re-write Twain but without any of the wit, charm or abolitionist messaging!
It's got a baked-in prequel with the ghost of Christmas past. The whole scrooge story is fully told!
so what you're saying is, this has potential for a whole TRILOGY of films? 
We can make a Dickens Cinematic Universe. Besides Scrooge, each of the three ghosts surely has a story. And what about Marley, the portentous visitor? Surely he's got a story about how he ended up in chains wandering the Earth. Could do a whole afterlife thing where he redeems himself and is freed at the end. And a prequel of his story! What about Scrooge's ex-fiancee? The quest of the urchin to purchase that turkey!
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I'm guessing this will be like Cruella in that the character is actually nothing like the one from their original source material?
Actually, she hates Dalmatians because a pack of them knocked her mom off a cliff!
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Wicked has made a zillion dollars so they're going to do this with everything they can
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Casting Depp as the type specimen for the guy who realises the error of his ways is a good bit, I appreciate that.
Ti West is directing, so it could be a bit
Emphasis on could
Waiting for "The Princess and the Pea 2: Pee Pee Poo Poo"
Is Tim Robinson involved? I only accept weird Christmas Carol spinoffs if Tim Robinson is involved.
I would pay to see Old Man Scrooge go up against Skeletrex
Give him a beating with his old man cane
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What in the name of god is this? A movie prequel to the christmas carol???
I guess!
I guess the ghost of Christmas past wasn't good enough or something
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Saw the ad for this on X, the everything app. Didn't bother turning sound on, what could be missed, but did watch till the end, befuddled and yet fully understanding what this was, we've seen this multiple times before. It's Depp being Depp, bringing unrequested charm to one of fiction's most recognizable grumps (a scrooge, even) for a story few have ever cared to ponder.
But more than that why the fuck are you releasing an ad for a Christmas movie in July, it's for a product no one wants at a time no one cares
I saw the trailer and honestly my thoughts were this is Depp playing Jack Sparrow playing Scrooge
Let's be frank. It is Depp playing Hunter S. Thompson playing Jack Sparrow playing Scrooge.
After Fear and Loathing he pretty much has played Hunter S. Thompson in every single film.
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Waiting for the F. D. Signifier 45 minute video labeling it antisemitic.
I mean, there is a greater than zero chance it could be antisemitic
Give Scrooge a rival named Mr. Stingeley 
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I'm willing to make a deal with whatever studio is making this movie: I'll watch it if the song Ebenezer Goode by The Shamen is in it.
I mean, I'll torrent it, but I never said anything about paying.
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