‘Ebenezer’ trailer: Depp’s Scrooge faces 3 horrifying ghosts

Paramount Pictures released the full “Ebenezer” trailer on Thursday, Oct. 1, giving fans their longest look yet at Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge in director Ti West’s gothic take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” The film opens in theaters Nov. 13. The new “Ebenezer” trailer centers on a warning. According to UPI, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him three spirits will call on him on Christmas Eve. Ian McKellen plays Marley. Dark Horizons reports that Andrea Riseborough is the Ghost of Christmas Past, “Severance” star Tramell Tillman is the Ghost of Christmas Present and Daisy Ridley is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. Rupert Grint plays Bob Cratchit and Sam Claflin plays Scrooge’s nephew, Fred. Charlie Murphy and Ellie Bamber play the Fezziwigs, and Arthur Conti appears as a young Ebenezer. Henry Lloyd-Hughes is also in the cast. Paramount bills the film as a ghost story set in Dickens’ London that follows “one man’s supernatural journey to fa