Season's greetings and happy holidays from Adapt or Perish! It's that time of year, so we're back with our fourth look at A Christmas Carol, and 10 more screen adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic.
Our previous Christmas Carol episodes:
- Part 1 on the web, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
- Part 2 on the web, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
- Part 3 on the web, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
In this episode, we discuss:
- A Carol Christmas, the 2003 Hallmark TV movie directed by Matthew Irmas, written by Tom Amundsen, and starring Tori Spelling, Gary Coleman, and William Shatner
- Barbie in A Christmas Carol, the 2008 animated movie directed by William Lay, written by Elisa Allen, and starring Kelly Sheridan and Morwenna Banks
- Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special directed by Toby Haynes, written by Steven Moffat, and starring Matt Smith, Michael Gambon, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill
- It's Christmas, Carol!, the 2012 Hallmark TV movie directed by Michael M. Scott, written by Christopher Sey and William Penick, and starring Emmanuelle Vaugier and Carrie Fisher
- The Man Who Invented Christmas, the 2017 theatrical movie directed by Bharat Nalluri, written by Susan Coyne, and starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce
- A Christmas Carol, the 2020 modern dance adaptation written and directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris, starring Simon Russell Beale, Carey Mulligan, Andy Serkis, Daniel Kaluuya, Martin Freeman, and Siân Phillips
- Christmas Carole, the 2022 TV special directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, and starring Suranne Jones
- A New Diva's Christmas Carol, the 2022 TV movie directed by Rusty Cundieff, written by Aydrea Walden, starring Ashanti, Vivica A. Fox, and Robin Givens, and adapted from A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000), which we covered in Part 3
- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, the 2022 animated movie directed by Stephen Donnelly, written by Donnelly and Leslie Bricusse, starring Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, and Jonathan Pryce, and adapted from Scrooge (1970), which we covered in Part 2
- A Christmas Carole: A Ghost Story, the 2022 filmed staging directed by Adam Penford, written by Mark Gatiss, and starring Gatiss and Nicholas Farrell
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