Johnny Depp returns to the cinema for a new major project, the second since his ultra-media affair of domestic violence against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. The Hollywood superstar will star in the upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens’ tale. A Christmas storyreports the American specialized press, including Deadline.
Johnny Depp will play the famous Christmas-hating hero, Ebenezer Scrooge, on screen in this movie called Ebenezer: A Christmas Story. This rereading of Dickens’s work is by Ti West, the horror film director unknown, Pearl EITHER MaXXXine. Paramount, which is completing final negotiations on the project, plans to release it in theaters on November 13, 2026.
Johnny Depp, in the role of the grumpy Scrooge, will face, according to the scenario described by Paramount, “his past, his present and his future and will fight for a second chance” in an “exciting ghost story set in Dickens’s London.”
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In recent years, the former star of pirates of the caribbeanEntangled in his legal battles, his defamation lawsuits against his ex-wife Amber Heard and other controversies, he had been kept away from the studios and in particular from Disney and the franchise. Fantastic Animals.
Since his libel victory in 2022, Johnny Depp has appeared in French director’s film Maïwenn. Joan of Barry and he just finished filming day drinker by Marc Webb, with Penélope Cruz, whose premiere is also scheduled for 2026.
Please note that Robert Eggers, director of The lighthouse EITHER the witchrevealed just a few days ago by the American site Deadline. Alongside Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe will play Ebenezer Scrooge.
Source: BFM TV
