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08Jan2009

Check Out Jim Carrey in Zemeckis' 'Christmas Carol'

DateThursday, January 8, 2009 at 3:24AM
You know who runs a good movie website? Jim Dorey at MarketSaw. His whole thing is 3-D technology, and very often it doesn't have to do with movies. For instance, he once sent me a story about a 3-D cellphone screen. Oh, the future's here all right.

But Jim doesn't waste your time when he talks about movies, you know, like I do. He's usually breaking a story about something bold and exciting. Take, for example, his article about Disney's A Christmas Carol. The film will be a combination of The Polar Express and Kind Hearts and Coronets, or if your tastes are more contemporary, Norbit. Jim Carrey will play seven roles in the new version of the Dickens classic, which will be directed by Robert Zemeckis, who of course, is obsessed with performance capture technology.

Here's a first look at Carrey as Scrooge, and MarketSaw will have more photos from this batch soon.

Here's a closer look at Carrey, from Filmz.ru:

The good thing about what Zemeckis is doing is that each new movie shows us something new. You couldn't have made Beowulf in 2004, just as you couldn't have made A Christmas Carol in 2006. I think you're creating a monster by letting the notoriously over-the-top Carrey play seven roles, and his Scrooge looks a bit too much like his Lemony Snicket character, but it's still a movie to look forward to.

Zemeckis has always been one of those guys to move the bar up a notch or two, and I don't expect this to be any different.

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AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

Patrick Stewart has been playing all of the characters in Dickens' tale on stage for years. Certainly, he's not the name on the marquee that The Yes Man is, but it would have been cool to see Jean Luc Picard's version on the big screen...

Thursday, January 8, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWill

Ah yes... but Stewart wouldn't bring that cartoony buffoonish nature to the roles that is a Carrey staple. Given that it's Disney & 3D I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it will be nowhere near the more dramatic take as Stewart's onstage performances.

Thursday, January 8, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAsana

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