I blame the success of Wicked for Hollywood deciding that every villain needs an origin story now

This feels like something you'd see in a parody making fun of hollywood movies. A Christmas Carol prequel, really?

What Is this, A 30Rock sketch?

Who is seeing the prequel to a story that is destined to end with our protagonist being an evil old bastard?

And doesn’t the original tale go into his backstory? Christmas Past and all that?

What an empty waste of time and money.

We can all save ourselves the time and money by simply watching the relevant 20 minutes from The Muppets Christmas Carol. Including When Love is Gone, obviously.

They just can't conjure the creativity to make a new story, can they? Just the same old rehashed story over.. and over... and over again

Wow. A poster that instantly makes You not want to see the movie. Usually it takes a trailer.

Exasperated sigh

So the time period where he neglects friends, family, and loved ones to slowly morphs into a villain? Cuz I think they covered that in the original. Or at least they did the Muppet version which is the only one worth watching.

I know Hollywood is its own thing, but it's so strange to see a movie advertising Depp in it. He seems impossible to work with and after the whole trial I can't imagine it being great for audience good will. Is there really no other actor they could have gone with?

Fucken prequels, sequels, spinoffs, bullshit everything needs to be a billion dollar franchise bullshit.

Charlie Murphy? Like died almost a decade ago Charlie Murphy?

What are they going for here? Because it looks very openly like "worship / glorify rich old white guys". Surely it's not that simple, right?

/em slowly beats head against his monitor.

Just what we needed a reskinning of A Christmas Carol.

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