A Christmas Carol (2009)

A Christmas Carol is the 56th adaptation of the Charles Dickens story. The movie, to be released by Walt Disney Pictures, will be released on November 6, 2009.

In July 2007, it was announced that director Robert Zemeckis had written a screen adaptation of Dickens' 1843 story. The film will be a 3D animated feature that utilizes the same kinds of motion capture techniques used previously by Zemeckis in his films "The Polar Express" and "Beowulf".

Zemeckis wrote the screenplay with Jim Carrey in mind, and Carrey signed on to the project. Similar to Tom Hanks in "The Polar Express", Carry will play a multitude of roles in the film, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, along with the all three of the Christmas spirits that haunt him.

Also in the cast will be Bob Hoskins, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Darryl Sabara (from the "Spy Kids" films) and Robin Wright Penn. Zemeckis, director of the "Back to the Future" trilogy, has previously stated that "A Christmas Carol" is one of his favorite stories dealing with time travel. This is the third movie released by Disney with A Christmas Carol in the title. In 1983, the animated Mickey's Christmas Carol, using many of the classic characters of Disney was first released, and in 1992, The Muppet Christmas Carol was released under the Disney banner, almost a decade before Disney bought The Jim Henson Company.