Though not as full of fantasy and pathos as the original story of A Christmas Carol, Dickens’s personal journey makes for a charming Christmas movie. If he wants to finish the story, Dickens has to learn some of those same lessons himself. Scrooge and the ghosts who teach him the importance of kindness and generosity. He comes up with the familiar story of the miserly Mr. In mid-19 th century London, “Charles Dickens” (Dan Stevens), having just published three unpopular novels in a row, has to write a new story to save his growing family from debt. "I read accounts from daughter's diary about finding her dad in the mirror making these weird faces in the mirror and conjuring these characters up, and he really had to make them vivid and alive," he explained.Written by Susan Coyne based on a book by Les Standiford, The Man Who Invented Christmas re-imagines the classic novel A Christmas Carol. He read an annotated edition of "A Christmas Carol" by Michael Hern. Stevens was familiar with the story – but did some digging to learn more about his character. The film is set in Victorian England at a time when the Christmas holiday had become unpopular.ĭan Stevens, who is best known for his breakout role as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey and the prince in Disney's Live action version of "Beauty and the Beast," plays Dickens. The story introduces viewers to a 32-year-old Charles Dickens, who wrote the literary classic in just six weeks, all in an effort to keep creditors at bay. "The Man Who Invented Christmas" is based on Les Standiford's book of the same title.
So for me, it's a great frolicking adventure. "I mean no one had ever done it before, even The Time Machine hadn't been written yet. READ: God and Scrooge: Finding the Faith of Charles Dickens It's a man who goes back in time and meets himself and becomes a better person for it," he said. "People always forget it's a bit of science fiction. Nalluri calls the movie an adventure story. "And how you can share the world a little bit and that's why it resonates – that's why the book gets sold in its millions around the world." "And it's really about being a human being and finding out what it is to be a human being," he explained. "The interesting thing is that on surface it's all fun, and roaring fires, and horse chestnuts, and snow, and dancing and blind man's bluff, but the genius of Dickens is that he transcends all that," Bharat Nalluri, the film's director told CBN News.
The movie is based on the inspiring true story of how Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol." The holiday movie season is upon us and filmmakers are giving us a new take on an old favorite with the film "The Man Who Invented Christmas".
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