Johnny Depp appears as Ebenezer Scrooge in the first look at Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol, and the poster keeps most of his face hidden. Only his eyes show below Ebenezer's black hat, with snow gathered on the brim.
Paramount Pictures has tied that image to a theatrical release on November 13, 2026. Ti West is directing from Nathaniel Halpern's script, turning Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol into a fresh take built around Scrooge's hard edges, the three ghosts, and the change in outlook that follows.
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The poster gives Depp a partial reveal rather than a full character image, which is the point. The eyes do the work here, while the hat and snow suggest a colder, more severe version of the story's center figure.
That choice keeps Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol from looking like a standard period adaptation. The first public image says more about mood than plot, and it gives the film a visual identity before the cast starts to carry the rest of the campaign.
Ti West, Nathaniel Halpern
West's film draws on Halpern's script, and the cast around Depp is already sizable: Arthur Conti, Rupert Grint, Daisy Ridley, Andrea Riseborough, Sam Claflin, Ian McKellen, Ellie Bamber, Charlie Murphy, and Tramell Tillman. Emma Watts is producing, with Andrew Larry, Pete Chiappetta, Jason Forman, Stephen Deuters, Adam Bohling, Anthony Tittannegro, and David Reid among the seven executive producers.
That ensemble suggests the adaptation is being built as more than a one-character showcase. Scrooge may be the center, but the story still needs the ghosts of the past, present, and future to push him toward the moral reset that defines A Christmas Carol.
November 13, 2026
The release date gives the project its next hard marker: November 13, 2026, in theaters. For readers tracking the film rather than the poster art, that is the date to watch, because the image is the first public sign of how the production wants to position Depp inside one of literature's most familiar roles.
What West changes inside Dickens' framework is still the open question. The poster shows the look, the release date, and the cast; the adaptation itself will have to prove how far it can move beyond the familiar carol without losing the spine of Ebenezer's transformation.
