DISNEY - ZEMECKIS CHRISTMAS CAROL WILL BE A REAL GHOST STORY

ZEMECKIS CHRISTMAS CAROL WILL BE A REAL GHOST STORY

Director Robert Zemeckis has freely admitted that he is bringing his 3D live-action A Christmas Carol to Comic-Con in San Diego to help overcome an image problem. In an interview with today's (Thursday) Los Angeles Times , Zemeckis noted that audiences might reach the wrong conclusion when they realize it's being released by Disney. "What we hope to accomplish is that anyone at Comic-Con realizes that it's not a movie for the traditional Disney audience. It's a classic ghost story," he told the newspaper. (Disney may be the least of his image concerns; the movie is based on the Charles Dickens classic that has been told to kids at Christmas time since it was was written in 1834. It also stars Jim Carrey, hardly a contemporary Lionel Barrymore, the quintessential Scrooge. And Zemeckis himself is best known for family films like the Back to the Future series, Forrest Gump, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ) Still, Zemeckis said that he hoped the word might spread via Comic-Con "that this is a movie for real movie fans, and real ghost-story fans and fans of graphic novels." Meanwhile, Comic-Con organizers said Wednesday that they expect 125,000 fans to show up for this year's festivities.

23/07/2009