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Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold

Media | The Guardian · Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent · last updated

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard

“It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years.

The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard.

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