How ‘Spirited’ Director Sean Anders Crafted a ‘Christmas Carol’ Riff With a Theatrical Twist
thewrap.comWhat was the initial nugget of an idea that inspired this movie?Well, John Morris, my writing and producing partner and I, we’ve always wanted to do a musical.
We were having a conversation while we were working on another script, and we were just talking story, and we ended up talking about “A Christmas Carol” and about how an argument could be made that the ghosts are the protagonists of “A Christmas Carol” because they’re the ones with a mission and a job to do.
That led to a pretty funny conversation about well, imagine the amount of prep and work that must go into structuring this haunt.
Then we got excited, we thought, has anybody ever done “A Christmas Carol” from the perspective of the ghosts?We started talking about who our Scrooge be, and we were just kind of talking about the state of the world right now, and we liked the idea of what if the Ghost of Christmas Present is our protagonist?
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