Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. Ti West is directing. If that pairing made you raise an eyebrow, Paramount would like you to keep it raised.
The studio just released the official new trailer for Ebenezer. It isn’t being sold as cozy holiday viewing.
What the trailer shows
The first stretch plays it familiar. Depp’s Scrooge moves through a snowy Victorian city in a black top hat and heavy dark coat. There are charity collectors at his office, ledgers, cold rooms and a man who very much wants to be left alone.
Then the lights go down.
A figure turns up inside his darkened home. Curtains move. Hallways stretch into shadow. A pale, nearly corpselike visitor sits in a chair and tells him, “You will be haunted by three spirits.”
Depp starts out irritated and dismissive. By the back half he’s frightened and disoriented in his own house.
Red title cards ask if you “THINK YOU KNOW HIS STORY” and answer “THINK AGAIN.”
The name you know
Paramount isn’t giving much away about exactly how this version changes the story.
The official synopsis is almost aggressively short: “This November, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. The name you know, the story you don’t.”
That tells you exactly which miser you’re getting. Everything around him is where Ti West appears to be playing.
Coming from the director of X, Pearl and MaXXXine, that promise of “the story you don’t” feels especially interesting when the trailer is already treating Scrooge’s ghosts like actual horror imagery with a comedic backdrop.
Nathaniel Halpern wrote the screenplay. Emma Watts produces.
Ebenezer opens only in theaters November 13, 2026. The film has not yet been rated.
