New Trailer for Zemeckis' 'A Christmas Carol'

Robert Zemeckis and Disney made official this weekend the speculation that they'd team up to remake (or perhaps re-imagine, to the degree that there is a difference) The Beatles' Yellow Submarine. As an experimental film originally, it is not a huge leap to consider the possibilities of a motion-capture update of the psychedelic musical film a blank canvas for Zemeckis and his pet technology. We don't have any specifics on when that film will be out, but the technology means it will have a fairly lengthy production phase, so maybe two years. Maybe. In the meantime, Zemeckis and Disney are teaming up on A Christmas Carol, which comes out this November. With each one of these mo-cap flicks, Zemeckis makes little improvements in the rendering, and while it still looks like animation - otherwise, why bother? - A Christmas Carol is much more lifelike that Beowulf. Still can't get the eyes right, but I suspect they never will. Other than that, the animation looks pretty good. In addition to looking better than Beowulf, A Christmas Carol is also a better use of the technology in terms of storytelling. I think I would have preferred a live-action Beowulf for all it had to offer, but this movie is probably better off in the animated realm. It opens November 6th.

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[Asana]

It looks very good and hopefully Carrey is not too over-the-top (yes I know long shot there) that the film suffers for it. Considering it for what it is, the eyes aren't so bad in context with everything else.