Comic-Con got a double dose of three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, who after showing up as Scrooge character on the streets of the Gaslamp district Thursday crashed Collider’s Directors on Directing panel in Hall H with the trailer for Ebenezer, the Ti West-directed holiday movie coming out November 13.
Hysterical is all we have to say: Depp is so method, you can’t even make out what he is saying, in complete mumble. That was apparent earlier today during his Gaslamp appearance — and Deadline was standing less than 12 feet in front of him.
In Hall H, after hobbling on stage with a candle (“I’m speaking into the candle”), he handed it off to director John Francis Daley, who was sitting at the end of the dais. Depp’s Scrooge turned to the crowd and said, “Have you no lives? No responsibilities?”
Watch the trailer above. In looks it’s Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd — very period, very dark gothic as you’d expect a Ti West title to be, and it’s the Scrooge you’ve never seen before (sorry, Bill Murray). We have Depp’s Ebenezer sinking in a bed, throwing snow balls at a couple. It’s very comical. The beginning credits drum up all the alter egos he’s played — i.e., Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands — which have led to this.
Early on in the trailer, Depp’s Ebenezer turns to the camera and beams, “It’s good to be back.”
Nathaniel Halpern adapted the Charles Dickens classic. The pic also stars Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint, Sam Claflin and Daisy Ridley.
Collider pulled off a surprise trailer in its first post-Covid Comic-Con panel in 2022 when Keanu Reeves crashed its panel with the first teaser for Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4.
