Here’s the first image of Jim Carrey as a miserly animated Ebenezer Scrooge

Disney has released the first image of Jim Carrey in the upcoming Disney’s A Christmas Carol. Carrey stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in the upcoming film, a multi-sensory film re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Capturing the essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event, Disney’s A Christmas Carol opens in theaters around the world in November 2009.

Early footage from the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier today.

Disney’s A Christmas Carol is an animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of a miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of three mysterious Christmas apparitions.

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