Jan 8 2009Jim Carrey, as Animated Scrooge, Wearing a Translucent Baggy as a Sleeping Cap
Filmz.ru has posted the first look at Jim Carrey as Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol. Like Zemeckis's last project, this film is entirely motion-capture animation, taking the creepy, empty faces of Beowulf and combining them with the creepy, awful faces of the elderly. I'm probably going to throw up during the trailer.
Reader Comments
1. Mr.Anderson - January 8, 2009 12:38 PM
It looks cool and Jim Carrey is a pretty nice guy.
Crappy shot though.
2. Scooby - January 8, 2009 12:49 PM
I like Jim Carrey and BEOWULF was good. So, this could be good too.
3. Elmo - January 8, 2009 1:08 PM
Count Olaf?!
4. Sithlord - January 8, 2009 1:16 PM
looks like a potential christmas classic.
5. jumpin_J - January 8, 2009 1:34 PM
F-iddity F - F! WE JUST GOT OVER THE HOLIDAYS!!! LET THE WAR ON XMAS 2009 BEGIN NOW!!!
F. U. Jim Carrey!!!!
6. Mike - January 8, 2009 2:13 PM
Is that a ghost infront of Jim Carrey?
7. EthanDuke - January 8, 2009 2:43 PM
Beowulf stunk! Carrey killed the potential Lemony Snicket franchise with his awful portrayal of Count Olaf, and now Zemeckis and Carrey are going to bastardize Dickens?? Just what we need. Bah Humbug!
8. Chrouble - January 8, 2009 3:00 PM
It looks like the reflection of a person's head on his cap. It's not translucent.
9. mcfly - January 8, 2009 6:15 PM
Dear Mr. Zemeckis,
Please stop ruining Christmas with your horrifying corpse movies. Thank you.
10. deadmuffin - January 8, 2009 6:17 PM
why the fuck are they making another one...it has been done 12 times before...i mean, there was a scrooge mc duck version... A LOONEY TOONS VERSION...GOD LEAVE IT BE!!!
11. mtk - January 9, 2009 1:29 AM
Robert Zemeckis needs to carpool with George Lucas over to Technocrats Anonymous. ENOUGH WITH THE MOCAP.
12. Cardii - January 9, 2009 3:57 AM
@3
My thought exactly.
And yea this movie will probably suck but will still be watched for its "family-oriented" story and CGI... and Jim Carrey..
13. sully - January 9, 2009 12:15 PM
Dear Jim Carrey,
Remember when you did movies that were original and exciting? Yeah, I think we liked that. Please do that again.
-Earth
14. Frederick - May 31, 2009 10:20 PM
A classic story like "A Christmas Carol" can be done over and over and still remain fresh and moving. I for one look forward to this new version and hope it brings a new approach. A ghost story like this could really benefit from the digital effects also.
I'm open to it.