Bah! Humbug! It’s that time of year again, and FX is celebrating Scrooge’s famous epithets with a three-hour special, “A Christmas Carol,” premiering Dec. 19.
Scrooge is played by 52-year-old Aussie Guy Pearce, (“L.A. Confidential”). And the script is adapted by the innovative Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders,” “Locke”).
“What I wanted to do was to not set out to deliberately vandalize what the story is,” says Knight. “I know how precious it is to a lot of people. It’s precious to me as well, and it’s part of our narrative; it’s part of our culture. It’s part of Christmas.
“What I wanted to do is to deepen it and give it maybe a resonance that people now will go back to the book and read it again. I never try to introduce alien ideas, modern ideas, contemporary ideas into the narrative, but rather dig into what’s there and find out some of the things that a contemporary audience would be interested in,” he says.