In just six weeks, he wrote the story of Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge only to have his book rejected by his publishers. Starring Christopher Plummer as Scrooge and Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens, the movie whisks us back to the era of young Dickens after three of his latest books flopped. It took a couple years to get it done, get it into stores, and now here it is - a movie.” I said, ‘You know what? I’ve got an idea.’ I went out and wrote the book. I went looking for that book, and I couldn’t find it. The answer to all those questions was ‘I didn’t know any of those things,’ and I figured it had been taken from some book. Les Standiford: “I got an e-mail asking me did I know ‘A Christmas Carol’ nearly didn’t get publish, that Dickens had to spend his own money to get it published himself, that Christmas is not the hot holiday it is this day. Standiford says he got the brilliant idea nearly a decade ago. Standiford’s novel “The Man Who Invented Christmas” sparked the major motion picture. The work of a historian and local author is the inspiration behind it all. Les Standiford, author and FIU professor: “This is a book about a fellow writing a book, but what you get a chance to see is all these amazing characters - like Tiny Tim and Scrooge and all ghosts of Christmas past, present and future - coming alive in Dickens’ mind, and it’s really thrilling.” With warmth, wit and an infusion of Christmas cheer, the film reveals Charles Dickens’ desire to re-ignite his career.
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