by Bill Fancher and Jody Brown
Coral Ridge Media has released a modern version of a Christmas classic that will premiere on TV during the Christmas week.
The new made-for-TV movie, called Scrooge & Marley, is a modern setting of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. In this version of the classic tale, Scrooge embroils himself in a very modern issue. Senior producer Jerry Newcombe describes the setting.
“Instead of having Scrooge as a money-lender in England, we have Scrooge as a personal-injury attorney in New England — and he's suing his local town because of a manger scene that is in front of City Hall,” he says. “And that manger scene sits like a boil on the end of Scrooge's nose.”
The producer says there is one scene which sets the stage for Scrooge's experience. “He drinks a toast to himself [and] to a 'world without Christmas — no, better yet, a toast to a world in which Jesus had never been born'.” That begins Scrooge's journey into a world with no hope.
Newcombe says the hour-long special will be very entertaining, “but it's also a very spiritually uplifting program that shows that because Jesus Christ has come into our world, there's so many positive and wonderful things that have come about.”
The family-friendly movie will be broadcast on the PAX TV Network on Christmas Eve and on many stations across the country on Christmas night. It will also air on The Coral Ridge Hour on December 29 and 30. Dean Jones, a Christian actor best known for his roles in several older Disney films, plays the role of the ill-tempered miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
Visit the Scrooge & Marley website.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)
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