{"id":23178,"date":"2015-09-17T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23178"},"modified":"2015-09-17T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:08:36","slug":"ice-cube-not-the-scrooge-were-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/ice-cube-not-the-scrooge-were-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube: Not the Scrooge We&#8217;re Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We asked for a modern re-do of <em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Carol<\/em> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/merry-podcast-45-classic-christmas-movie-trivia\/\"><strong>latest episode of the Merry Podcast<\/strong><\/a> and at least one of four competing movie studios wants to deliver. Universal Pictures has purchased the rights to a modern re-telling of the Dickens classic and has tabbed Ice Cube as Scrooge in what they promise will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> comedy. <\/p>\n<p>Ice Cube teams again with Tim Story, who brought <em>Barbershop <\/em>to the big screen, to head this project. <\/p>\n<p>Three other studios &#8212; MGM, New Line and Disney, of all people &#8212; were bidding on the script. <\/p>\n<p>Tentatively titled <em>Humbug<\/em> the movie is slated for a 2017 debut &#8212; no doubt at <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> time. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re pretty confident Ice Cube is not the Scrooge we&#8217;re looking for and that <em>Humbug<\/em> is not the version of <em>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Carol<\/em> that we had in mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked for a modern re-do of A Christmas Carol in the latest episode of the Merry Podcast and at least one of four competing movie studios wants to deliver. Universal Pictures has purchased the rights to a modern re-telling of the Dickens classic and has tabbed Ice Cube as Scrooge in what they promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[48,323,322,226],"class_list":["post-23178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-movies","tag-a-christmas-carol","tag-dickens","tag-ice-cube","tag-new-christmas-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}