In John Gregory Dunne’s THE STUDIO a hackish producer explains that the difference between Dickens, a bad writer, and Hollywood, full of good writers, is that Dickens never gives Scrooge a backstory to explain why he’s so mean.
DiscussingFilmFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”