A Kaiju Christmas Carol

A Kaiju Christmas Carol is a 2018 British-American dark fantasy monster film. The film is an adaptation Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol mixed with the kaiju genre.

Synopsis
Ebeneezer Scrooge, a stingy, aging tin magnate, is visited by three titanic monsters three nights before Christmas, which inadvertently helps to make Scrooge a better man.

Plot
In 1850's England, one prone to attacks by giant monsters dubbed kaiju, Ebeneezer Scrooge is the owner of a Devon tin mine. Years of bad business and personal decisions have left him a bitter man living alone in Plymouth, and the Christmas spirit has done nothing to change it. He declines his nephew Fred Holywell's invitation to a Christmas dinner party in London, and rejects a message by the local government to help with the aftermath of the most recent kaiju attack. The latter decision proves to be a huge blow, causing business for him to slowly but surely, not to mention being threatened to be evicted from his home within three days. During this period, he reluctantly agrees to give his employees, such as Bob Cratchit, a payed day off with his family.

As Scrooge has a meal in his seaside mansion later that night, he suddenly finds himself attacked by a strange man with milky white skin, who identifies himself as James Marley, Scrooge's old mine foreman. He raves at Scrooge about how his selfish ways have doomed him and that three infernal beasts will hunt him down if he won't repent and change his ways. Scrooge initially dismisses it as a mere hallucination, but soon starts to have his doubts, and is soon forced to pick up the pace when a kaiju siren sounds at 1:00 AM, the Bright Behemoth, a 30-yard high lizard, has emerged from the sea and is heading along the beach to Scrooge's street. As soldiers both from the Navy and several militias, including his own, attempt to repel the kaiju, a Scrooge frozen with fear is caught in the radius of a large energy blast.

Scrooge awakens years earlier, somehow transported thirty years earlier. As he struggles to get his bearings, he witnesses himself dancing at the hall of his mentor Mr. Wesley Fezziwig with his fiance Belle and Marley, when a kaiju emerges from the mines and decimates the hall, killing Fezziwig, and sending Marley into the earth. Hours later, when Belle and Scrooge are taking inventory, Scrooge tries proposing to Belle, but she declines his offer while she tells him off for his selfish ways, leaving him. Moments later,

Scrooge wakes up back in the present, albeit the next day, with much of the town in ruins, including his own home. He nevertheless remains highly, going to the bank, to pay off his debts. As he walks around the town seeing people rebuilding and celebrating with one another, he starts to wonder if being kinder and selfless would be better. At that moments

Scrooge wakes up again, this time at the front door of his now repaired house on Christmas day

Scrooge, now treating everyone with kindness, generosity, and compassion, celebrates Christmas with the Cratchits and Honeywells as the three kaiju finally leave and swim off into the ocean.

Cast

 * Peter Capaldi as Ebeneezer Scrooge, a stingy and bitter mine owner who is attacked by three kaiju
 * TBA as Bob Cratchit, a mine worker at
 * TBA as Tim Cratchit
 * TBA as Fred Holywell
 * TBA as Mr. Wesley Fezziwig
 * TBA as Belle Andrews
 * TBA as James Marley - Scooge's old business partner and mine foreman, now a troglodytic creature.
 * TBA as Archbishop Wills

Kaiju Featured

 * The Brighton Behemoth - a massive lizard-like kaiju with the ability to warp time that sends Scrooge to his past.
 * Balaichia - a titanic deer who stores a sweet substance in its fur, originally from far east Russia
 * - a large mutated rat that lives within Balaichia's fur
 * - massive grasshoppers living within Balaichia's fur
 * - a massive stork-like bird that hunts down Scrooge in his future.
 * Giant Mole - a titanic cynodont (though identified as a mole in the film) that emerges from the mine in Scrooge's past.
 * Cancerius - a massive crab which is seen in the beginning

Differences between Book and Film

 * James Marley (renamed from Jacob Marley) is alive.
 * Scrooge physically interacts with Bob's family

Reception
A Kaiju Christmas Carol received positive reviews, with

Notes/Trivia

 * Originally Gary Oldman was to play Scrooge.