Johnny Depp returns to the big screen with a new Christmas song

It's Hollywood Christmas Eve as Johnny Depp stars in his biggest film project yet.

It's the ghost of Hollywood Christmas past as Johnny Depp returns to his biggest film project since confessing during a controversial and ugly defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard.

Paramount Pictures, under the new direction of David Ellison, is in final negotiations to acquire a new take on Charles Dickens' largely unchanged A Christmas Carol.

Ti West, the horror filmmaker behind the films X, Pearl and MaXXXine, is attached to direct the feature, titled Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol.Paramount is set to set a November 13, 2026 release date.

Andrea develops into a star in the work created by Nathaniel Halpern.Emma Watts, who is director of the publisher's film department, presents.

The studio describes the new film project as "an incredible ghost story set in Dickens's London that follows the mysterious journey of a man as he confronts his past, present and future and fights for a second chance."

With Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge, this seems an apt description of the career trajectory of Depp, once one of the biggest and most reliable Hollywood stars of the 21st century thanks to films like Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

But years of slander on both sides of the Atlantic following his split from ex-wife Amber led to a headline that found Hollywood opening up and freaking out.Warner Bros.was fired from the Fantastic Beasts franchise in 2020.

Depp turned his attention to films outside of us and at the same time Jeanne Duz appeared.In the movies of the year 2023, the Hollywood vision said to him: "I don't think about Hollywood" because I need Hollywood.

His next move was a semi-step to Hollywood, starring in the Lionsgate-produced thriller Day Drinker, which launched the project as international sales on the title this week at the American Film Market.The film was shot earlier this year and is expected to release in 2026.

The deep dive entered the hollywood market in the summer, before one day.It's the biggest thing.But Skyndence stopped working and began to explore a range of film projects that were close to being frozen.In the end, the deep-west was deemed too hot to travel.