Kevin Hart Will Star In A Remake Of The Christmas Classic

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Here’s some extra proof that the Kevin Hart Oscars controversy didn’t damage Kevin Hart: The comic and star’s subsequent remake (after this winter’s French remake The Upside) will likely be at least Scrooged. The Hollywood Reporter reviews that Hart will replace the 1988 Christmas traditional, which itself was an replace of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

The unique starred — extra of a staple of the vacations than any of the numerous straight Carol variations, together with the traditional from 1951 with Alastair Sims — a shaggy-haired Murray as not a miserly small enterprise proprietor however the late 20th century equal: a rich and power-mad tv government. While producing a lavish, stay TV adaptation of the Dickens traditional he’s visited by three spirits, starting from David Johansen to Carol Kane to a fairly spooky Ghost of Christmas Future, who remind him that he was good man in love with Karen Allen. (Mildly bizarre trivia: For some motive it was directed by the man who helmed the Lethal Weapon motion pictures.)

How intently will Hart’s Scrooged persist with this sacred textual content? We’d prefer to suppose Hart’s 21st century Scrooge stand-in could be a full-blown company guru à la Jeff Bezos or — even higher — Elon Musk. Were he round at present, Ebenezer Scrooge would positively danger his wealth by getting excessive on a podcast with Joe Rogan.

(Via THR)