The Man Who Invented Christmas cast: Dan Stevens will play a young Charles Dickens while Christopher Plummer is Scrooge.
More on The Man Who Invented Christmas cast news below.
Britain’s own Dan Stevens and Canadian actor Christopher Plummer have joined the cast of The Man Who Invented Christmas, the tale of how Charles Dickens came to write his classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol, so reports Deadline.
They will join the already cast Jonathan Pryce in the movie, which will be directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) based on Les Standiford’s book of the same name. Here’s a little of the official synopsis from the source material.
Acclaimed popular historian Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, where we find out how a struggling Charles Dickens came to write the small book that would transform a somber, faded holiday into the celebration of charity and good cheer we know today.
Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist.
Dan Stevens will play the young Dickens in the film, while Christopher Plummer will play the fictional character of Scrooge. Jonathan Pryce will play Dickens’ father.
Shooting will kick off in December of this year with a release planned for 2017 – we’re guessing around Christmas to fit in with the material.
Dan Stevens will next be seen in the live-action version of Disney animation Beauty and the Beast, which is set to land in cinemas in March, 2017. Plummer will be seen as Kaiser Wilhelm II in the World War II drama The Exception, a film that we reviewed rather favourable when we caught it at TIFF.
