In an effort to maximize the amount of spoof movies we see this year, A Christmas Carol will be remade just in time for the holidays. We get the scoop today from the professionals at Variety:
Kelsey Grammer will reprise the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the indie satire “An American Carol,” directed by “Scary Movie 4″ helmer David Zucker. Grammer, who previously played Dickens’ stingy protag in the NBC-Hallmark production of “A Christmas Carol” in 2004, will play a modern-day Ebenezer in new film, which lampoons contemporary American culture, particularly Hollywood. Zucker penned the screenplay along with Myrna Sokoloff.
I dislike spoof movies, but will always give them a chance. Some have been classics and I always try to keep that in mind when I trudge through so many horrible films. A spoof of A Christmas Carol with Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge actually doesn’t sound all that bad on paper. There are a lot of funny directions that you can take this story and it has been done a number of times on various sketch programs.
Kelsey Grammer is also a very talented comedic actor. His interaction with David Hyde Pierce on the show Frasier was great and the two of them acted out some of the funniest moments I have seen on T.V. If you have not seen the episode Motor Skills you must do so ASAP. They decide to take an automotive night school class so they can feel more like men and fix their cars, but halfway through the course they decide that they have no desire to learn a make a conscious decision to “coast” through the course. When the teacher says “Does anybody here speak French” I laughed till I hurt.
In summation, I like Kelsey, and dislike most spoof movies; so we will see what happens.
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
oldshell
I went off Kelsey when I saw him doing an advert for the Republicans 8 years ago. I do however still love Frasier, in his show and cheers.
Feb 20th, 2008
Simon
If Scary Movie 3 and 4 are anything to go by, this will be another lazy, stupid spoof stuffed full of hip-hop references instead of actual jokes or a witty script. They’ll say “let’s have characters in period costume dancing to a rap song. The target audience of teenagers will lap it up!! Why write a script when all we need to do is recreate scenes from well known movies and have white characters talking in hip-hop slang?!”
Feb 21st, 2008
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